GREAT STATUE OF VAJRADHARA COPPER REPELLENT AND PARTIALLY GOLDEN
NEPAL, XIX CENTURY
Represented seated in padmasana on a large Lotiform base, hands in Bhumisparshamudra, holding a vajra in his left hand, dressed in a monastic robe hemmed with a frieze of flowers and spreading at his feet in soft folds, adorned with armbands and dangling ears, serene face, forehead girded with a wrought diadem; head, arms and torso assembled; small accidents and lacks
Height: 79 cm. (31 in.)
Details
- Title : A LARGE PARCEL GILT-COPPER REPOUSSE FIGURE OF VAJRADHARA
- Classification : Sculpture
- Medium : Gilt - Copper
- Country/ Geo-location : Nepal
- Period : 19TH CENTURY
- Collection : Christies
- LOT : 414
- Post Lot Text : A LARGE PARCEL GILT-COPPER REPOUSSE FIGURE OF VAJRADHARA NEPAL, 19TH CENTURY
- Price realised : EUR 10,800
- Estimate : EUR 8,000 - EUR 12,000