Fine Asian Art - 12th November 2024
Lot 58
A NEPALESE PARCEL-GILT AND SILVER-INLAID COPPER FIGURE OF PADMAPANI
Estimate £4,000 - £6,000 | Hammer £10080
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Description
A NEPALESE PARCEL-GILT AND SILVER-INLAID COPPER FIGURE OF PADMAPANI
16TH CENTURY
The Lord of Infinite Compassion seated in virasana on a lotus base, his right hand stretched downwards in varada mudra, his left hand in shuni mudra holding a lotus stem, dressed in a sanghati inlaid with silver and incised with foliate scrolls, his hair held in place with a three-leaf crown incorporating a small figure of Buddha, all framed by a flaming mandorla set behind him, the base plate finely incised with a visvavajra, 2.1kg, 24.3cm.
Provenance: from an English private collection, acquired prior to 2000, by repute acquired from Christie's London 12th April 1988, and thence by descent.
十六世紀 尼泊爾銅局部鎏金錯銀蓮華手觀音坐像
來源：英國倫敦私人收藏，1988年4月12日購於倫敦佳士得(傳)，之後由其後人繼承。