A GILT COPPER ALLOY SHRINE TO VASUDHARA

Details

  • Title : A GILT COPPER ALLOY SHRINE TO VASUDHARA
  • Year : 19TH CENTURY
  • Classification : Sculpture
  • Medium : GILT COPPER ALLOY
  • Dimension : 11.2 cm (4 3/8 in.) high
  • Accession No : GNM_LOT 24_BON_25
  • Country/ Geo-location : Nepal
  • Collection : Bonhams
  • Status : Online only Sold for €1,657.50 inc. premium / Himalayan Art Online Art Bouddhiste et Hindou de l'Himalaya Paris
  • Footnotes : A bronze figure of Indra in the David R. Nalin Collection provides an excellent stylistic comparison, being dated by inscription to 1840 CE (Vajracharya, Nepalese Seasons, 2016, p.156-7, no.50). Also compare a Garudasana sharing a similar open-work lotus base published in von Schroeder, Indo-Tibetan Bronzes, Hong Kong, 1981, p.385, no.104E.
  • Provenance : Private European Collection assembled in the 1960s and 1970s