Details
- Title : A GILT-COPPER FIGURE OF INDRA
- Classification : Sculpture
- Medium : Gilt - Copper
- Dimension : 3 ¼ in. (8.2 cm.) high, including tang
- Country/ Geo-location : Nepal
- Period : 15TH-16TH CENTURY
- Collection : Christies
- LOT : 604
- Pre-Lot Text : PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF BARONESS EVA BESSENYEY
- Lot Essay : The short tang at the base of this small figure indicates it may have been part of a larger arrangement. See, for instance, a similarly-sized fifteenth-sixteenth-century figure of Sarasvati, seated on a lotus base that slots into a larger lotiform aureole, in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston (acc. no. 68.750), illustrated by Pratapaditya Pal in The Arts of Nepal - Volume One: Sculpture, Leiden, 1974, figs. 240-241.
- Price realised : USD 18,750
- Estimate : USD 8,000 - USD 12,000
- Provenance : Private collection, France, acquired in 1995, by repute Christie's Paris, 13 June 2013, lot 55