STATUE D'INDRA EN CUIVRE

NEPAL, XIIIEME-XIVEME SIECLE

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STATUE D'INDRA EN CUIVRE
NEPAL, XIIIEME-XIVEME SIECLE
Représenté assis en rajalilasana, la main droite élégamment posée sur son genou en vitarkamudra, la main gauche posée derrière sa cuisse gauche tenant le vajra, vêtu d'un dhoti, upavita, paré de bijoux incrustés, le visage serein, l'urna horizontal, les cheveux coiffés en chignon rehaussés d'une tiare
Hauteur: 19 cm. (7½ in.)

Provenance

Acquired in France by the grand-parents of the present French owner before 1980's

Further details

A COPPER ALLOY FIGURE OF INDRA
NEPAL, 13TH/14TH CENTURY

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Lot Essay

This very elegantly modelled figure is characteristic for the Nepali representation of Indra, seated in the graceful pose of 'Royal Ease' holding his principal attribute, the thunderbolt, in his left hand. He's bearing a crescent shaped crown and a horizontal 'third eye' incised on the forehead. Indra is the lord of the gods who plays an important part in the legends, life and art of Nepal, and the best that the Newari sculptor had to give often went into the making of images of this deity; compare to another bronze of Indra from the Nasli and Alice Heeramaneck Collection, in P. Pal, Art of Nepal, 1985, cat. no. S42, p. 119.

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