RARE STATUE IN GOLDEN COPPER REPRESENTING PROBABLY THE KING GUNAKAMADEVA
NEPAL, CIRCA XII CENTURY
Represented sitting cross-legged on a lotiform base, hands in anjalimudra, dressed in a dhoti and a jacket, adorned with jewels, an inlaid necklace, serene face, almond-shaped eyes, braided hair, capped with a turban
Height: 12.2 cm. (4 7/8 in.)
Details
- Title : A RARE GILT-COPPER FIGURE OF POSSIBLY KING GUNAKAMADEVA
- Classification : Sculpture
- Medium : Gilt - Copper
- Country/ Geo-location : Nepal
- Period : CIRCA 12TH CENTURY
- Collection : Christies
- LOT : 420
- Post Lot Text : A RARE GILT-COPPER FIGURE OF POSSIBLY KING GUNAKAMADEVA NEPAL, CIRCA 12TH CENTURY
- Price realised : EUR 27,400
- Estimate : EUR 15,000 - EUR 20,000
- 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 1995, The Hague