TWO STONE SITES REPRESENTING PRAJNAPARAMITA AND PADMAPANI
NEPAL, XVII CENTURY
Both represented standing in tribhanga on a lotus and surrounded by a double halo, dressed respectively in a sari and a dhoti, adorned with jewels, their faces serene, their hair combed in their bunches, their foreheads encircled by a tiara painted in yellow, the goddess figured with four arms, the main hands in dharmacakramudra, the others holding the rosary and the manuscript, the god with the right hand in varadamudra, the left holding a lotus stem, pedestals
Heights: 66 cm. (26 in.) And 60 cm. (23 5/8 in.) (2)
Details
- Title : TWO STONE STELES DEPICTING PRAJNAPARAMITA AND PADMAPANI
- Country/ Geo-location : Nepal
- Period : 17TH CENTURY
- Collection : Christies
- LOT : 342
- Post Lot Text : TWO STONE STELES DEPICTING PRAJNAPARAMITA AND PADMAPANI NEPAL, 17TH CENTURY
- Price realised : EUR 16,250
- Estimate : EUR 14,000 - EUR 18,000
- Provenance : From a Danish private collection