A GILT-COPPER FIGURE OF INDRA
Lot 604PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF BARONESS EVA BESSENYEY

A GILT-COPPER FIGURE OF INDRA

NEPAL, 15TH-16TH CENTURY

Closed20 March 2019

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A GILT-COPPER FIGURE OF INDRA
NEPAL, 15TH-16TH CENTURY
3 ¼ in. (8.2 cm.) high, including tang

Private collection, France, acquired in 1995, by repute
Christie's Paris, 13 June 2013, lot 55

Specialist note

The short tang at the base of this small figure indicates it may have been part of a larger arrangement. See, for instance, a similarly-sized fifteenth-sixteenth-century figure of Sarasvati, seated on a lotus base that slots into a larger lotiform aureole, in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston (acc. no. 68.750), illustrated by Pratapaditya Pal in The Arts of Nepal - Volume One: Sculpture, Leiden, 1974, figs. 240-241.

Himalayan Art Resources (himalayanart.org), item no. 24495.