A NEPALESE GILT-COPPER REPOUSSE PLAQUE DEPICTING KAUMARI

A NEPALESE GILT-COPPER REPOUSSE PLAQUE DEPICTING KAUMARI
17TH CENTURY

The four-armed Goddess Kaumari stands on her vahana holding peacock feathers, mayurapattra, in the upper right hand, a kapala in her lower right hand and the left in varada mudra, a gesture of charity, mounted on a wooden panel, 15cm.

Provenance: from the collection of Norman Blount (1875-1930). Norman Blount was a jute broker, as well as the joint secretary (with the artist Abanindranath Tagore) of the Indian Society of Oriental Art, which was founded in 1907 in Calcutta, with Lord Kitchener the Society’s President.