NEPAL, 17TH-19TH CENTURY

細節

A Large Gilt Copper Repousse Figure of Tara
Nepal, 17th-19th century
The figure exquisitely cast standing in gentle tribhanga on a lotus base over a stepped openwork plinth, her hands held in varada and vitarka mudras, wearing a long dhoti incised with lotus scrolls and secured with a belt and pendant sashes, multiple necklaces, bracelets and earrings, her face with serene expression and surmounted by a crown with a scalloped nimbus, all surrounded by an elaborate openwork foliate mandorla inhabited by birds, miniature figures and clusters of leaves supporting chakras
46½ in. (118 cm.) high

來源

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, John Stewart Kennedy Fund, 1915 (15.95.155a,b)

拍品專文

This is finely executed standing figure of Tara, where the artist has unusually emphasized one of Tara's principle attributes, the lotus-stalk, to construct an elaborate nimbus around the central figure. Although produced in a different style, similar treatments of vine-scroll thronebacks appear surrounding a figure of Manjushri in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, illustrated in U. von Schroeder, Indo-Tibetan Bronzes, 1981, p. 393, no. 108E, and as part of a candelabra with donor figures in the collection of the Denver Art Museum, illustrated in P. Pal, The Arts of Nepal, Volume One: Sculpture, 1974, pl. 49.