A GILT-COPPER SHRINE OF MAHA AKSHOBYA AND CONSORT Nepal, dated by inscription 1784
Height: 16 3/8 in. (41.6 cm)
Details
- Title : A GILT-COPPER SHRINE OF MAHA AKSHOBYA AND CONSORT Nepal, dated by inscription 1784
- Year : dated by inscription 1784
- Classification : Sculpture
- Medium : Gilt Copper
- Dimension : Height: 16 3/8 in. (41.6 cm)
- Accession No : LOT 204
- Country/ Geo-location : NEPAL
- Collection : Sotheby’s
- Acquisition Method : PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE CARMEL COLLECTION
- Status : AT: INDIAN, HIMALAYAN & SOUTHEAST ASIAN WORKS OF ART INCLUDING PROPERTY FROM THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART 15 MARCH 2017 | 10:00 AM EDT NEW YORK
- ESTIMATE : 40,000 — 60,000 USD
- PROVENANCE : Butterfields San Francisco, 5 November 2002, lot 220.
- CATALOGUE NOTE : The inscription on the reverse reads: In Nepal Samvat 904 (CE 1784), on the twelfth day of the bright half of the Phalgunga month, Chakranasimha Toradhra [Tuladhara] commissioned this image of Maha Akshobhya in the memory of his deceased father Lakshmidhra and mother Lakshmi. May it be auspicious. Translation by Dr. Gautama A. Vajracharya, Professor Emeritus, University of Wisconsin,