STATUE OF VASUDHARA IN GOLDEN COPPER
NEPAL, DATE 1754
Represented seated in Lalitasana on a lotiform base bearing an inscription, the main hands holding the lotus and the vase, the four other hands holding various attributes, dressed in a sari, adorned with jewels, the serene face, a halo behind the head; missing mandorle
Height: 14 cm. (5½ in.)
Details
- Title : A GILT-COPPER FIGURE OF VASUDHARA
- Classification : Sculpture
- Medium : Gilt - Copper
- Country/ Geo-location : Nepal
- Period : DATED 1754
- Collection : Christies
- LOT : 410
- Post Lot Text : A GILT-COPPER FIGURE OF VASUDHARA NEPAL, DATED 1754
- Price realised : EUR 15,000
- Estimate : EUR 12,000 - EUR 18,000
- Provenance : Formerly the property of a Dutch private collector, acquired between the 1970's and the 1990's in The Netherlands, and bought from him by the present private collector in 1999, The Hague