STATUE DE VASUDHARA EN BRONZE DORE

NEPAL, XIVEME SIECLE

Details

STATUE DE VASUDHARA EN BRONZE DORE
NEPAL, XIVEME SIECLE
Représentée assise en lalitasana, les mains principales tenant un bouton de lotus et un vase, les quatre autres tenant des épis de blé et un manuscrit, parée de bijoux, le visage serein, coiffée d'une couronne incrustée
Hauteur: 16,8 cm. (6 5/8 in.)

Provenance

Formerly the property of a Dutch private collector, acquired between the 1970's and the 1990's in The Netherlands, and bought from him by the present private collector in 1995, The Hague

Literature

Hugo Kreijger, Godenbeelden uit Tibet, SDU Uitgeverij, Den Haag, 1989, p. 86

Exhibited

Goden en goeroe's, Museum voor Volkenkunde, Rotterdam, 17 June - 28 November 1989

Further details

A FINE GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF VASUDHARA
NEPAL, 14TH CENTURY

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Lot Essay

Vasudhara is the Buddhist goddess of wealth and prosperity. Her gestures of charity and adoration of the Buddha and the waterpot and sheaf of grain that she holds are all signifiers of fecundity.
See a comparable example sold by Christie's New York, 21 March 2012, lot 792.

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