Indian, Himalayan & Southeast Asian Works of Art

Indian, Himalayan & Southeast Asian Works of Art

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PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE EUROPEAN COLLECTOR

A GILT COPPER FIGURE OF INDRA, NEPAL, 15TH CENTURY

Auction Closed

September 22, 07:46 PM GMT

Estimate

12,000 - 18,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE EUROPEAN COLLECTOR

A GILT COPPER FIGURE OF INDRA

NEPAL, 15TH CENTURY


Height 5 ¼ in. (13.5 cm)


Himalayan Art Resources item no. 13748.

Private European Collection

Compare the posture, hand gestures, jewelry and flower design with a fifteenth century Nepalese gilt copper Indra formerly in the Nasli and Alice Heeramaneck Collection and now in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, see Pratapaditya Pal, Art of Nepal, Los Angeles, 1985, p. 119, cat. S42, illus. p. 50.