A Celebration of Enlightenment: Buddhist Metalwork From The Collection of Tuyet Nguyet And Stephen Markbreiter

A Celebration of Enlightenment: Buddhist Metalwork From The Collection of Tuyet Nguyet And Stephen Markbreiter

View full screen - View 1 of Lot 115. A rare copper alloy figure of Rato Machhendranath Nepal, 18th century | 十八世紀 尼泊爾銅紅觀音立像.

Property from the Tuyet Nguyet and Stephen Markbreiter Collection 雪月藏亞洲藝術珍品

A rare copper alloy figure of Rato Machhendranath Nepal, 18th century | 十八世紀 尼泊爾銅紅觀音立像

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May 26, 02:57 AM GMT

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30,000 - 50,000 HKD

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Property from the Tuyet Nguyet and Stephen Markbreiter Collection

A rare copper alloy figure of Rato Machhendranath

Nepal, 18th century

雪月藏亞洲藝術珍品

十八世紀 尼泊爾銅紅觀音立像


37 cm

Rato Macchendranath, also known as Karunamaya, Bunga Dyah or Matsyendranatha, is a local and popular Kathmandu Valley deity with complex iconography. His annual procession traditionally sees the royalty joining the throng. For a full discussion of the deity, his festivals and iconographic background; see Mary Shepherd Slusser, Nepal Mandala: a Cultural Study of the Kathmandu Valley, Princeton, 1982, pp. 367-79.