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Lot #120 - A Nepalese Heavily Cast Parcel-Gilt Coppery Bronze Avalokitesvara, 19th Century

  • Auction House:
    Mossgreen
  • Sale Name:
    Fine Chinese Works of Art & Ceramics (Part II)
  • Sale Date:
    12 Dec 2016 ~ 6.30pm
  • Lot #:
    120
  • Lot Description:
    A Nepalese Heavily Cast Parcel-Gilt Coppery Bronze Avalokitesvara, 19th Century
    the five-crowned bejewelled figure lightly clad and standing in "tribhanga", wearing a long silk scarf across the shoulders and down through the arms, the skin of an antelope over his left shoulder, on a round lotus base with a lengthy inscription, supported on a square wooden pedestal, "Lord of the world Lokanatha, on the fourth and fifth days of the waxing half of the month of Magh in the Nepalese year 988 (1867 or 1868.....)", two bronze pins inserted at the back, some traces of pigment
    73.5 cm high (with stand), 60 cm high (Bodhisattva)
  • Provenance:
    from the collection of Robert Bleakley, former Chairman of Sotheby's Australia
  • Notes:
    The inscription hails the statue as the Lord of the World, Lokanãtha. It was inscribed either 1867 or 1868 of the common era (the date falls close to the year boundary). The donor is a married monk belonging to the community of the Yampi Vihãra, an old monastery in northern Patan. The statue was a voluntary religious donation (Sanskrit: dharmacitta) involving his wife and children. It is unclear whether the statue was installed in the monastery itself, at least in recent decades, since Yampi Vihãra is not known to have had the kinds of lavish decoration seen in other Newar monasteries.
  • Estimate:
    A$30,000 - 40,000
  • Realised Price:
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  • Category:
    Oriental

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