RARE STATUE OF PADMAPANI BRONZE GOLDEN
NEPAL, IN THE STYLE LICCHAVI, CIRCA XVIIEME CENTURY
It is represented in Tribhanga on a Lotiform base. His right hand is in Varadamudra, his left hand in Vitarkamudra holds a lotus stem. He is adorned with jewels and dressed in an incised dhoti of flowers. His face is full of serenity. His hair is styled in a high bun.
Height: 24.8 cm. (9 ¾ in.)
Details
- Title : RARE STATUE OF PADMAPANI IN GOLDEN BRONZE
- Year : CIRCA 17TH CENTURY
- Classification : Sculpture
- Medium : GILT BRONZE
- Accession No : LOT 213
- Country/ Geo-location : NEPAL
- Period : LICCHAVI REVIVAL STYLE
- Collection : Christies
- Status : UPCOMING LOT FOR SALE IN CHRISTIE'S PARIS ( as mentioned on 05/12/2019)
- Origin : 1. Collection of Geraldine Rockefeller Dodge, United States of America. 2. Sotheby's Park Bernet, New York, October 7, 1975, lot 247. 3. American private collection, acquired in New York, December 23, 1975. 4. Christie's New York, March 21, 2012, lot 835. 5. Property of a Southeast Asian collector.
- Estimate : EUR 70,000 - EUR 90,000 (USD 77,678 - USD 99,871)
- Post Lot Text : A GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF PADMAPANI NEPAL, LICCHAVI REVIVAL STYLE, CIRCA 17TH CENTURY
- Lot Essay : This handsome and relatively large gilt-bronze sacred image represents a manifestation of Avalokiteshvara or the Bodhisattva of Compassion. This specific form displays the arms of the Padma- lotus that flowers along its upper left arm. Hence its name of Padmapani, a form that remains throughout the ages extremely popular in Nepal. The earliest examples have been executed in the last century and prototypes must have existed. Endless versions of this image are well made in the nineteenth century and it is often not Indeed this Padmapani figure shows a strong reminiscent of Licchavi dating back to circa the eight century. Its suave modelling, elegant simplicity and a gentle, introspective facial expression are clearly derived from such early religious works of art. Compare this gilt-bronze figure for instance with a late Licchavi bronze seated Buddha example discussed as lot ?????. The Licchavi prototypes for this work have been developed throughout the world of Tibet and Newari artists of the seventeenth and eighteenth century in the creation of these new sculptures.