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A GILT COPPER REPOUSSÉ CEREMONIAL NECKLACE This finely hammered collar depicts a four-armed deity, likely Manjushri
NEPAL, CIRCA 17TH CENTURY Jnanasattva (see HAR 79070), amid well-articulated floral sprays.
Himalayan Art Resources item no.16812 Nepalese ceremonial necklaces like the present lot could either be
10 5/8 in. (27 cm) wide worn by a metal image of a deity or by a participant. A silver collar,
dated 1676, in the Dallas Museum of Art (1987.470) shares a similar
$10,000 - 15,000 design of a series of foliate medallions flanking a central deity. The
treatment of the flame borders is also a good point of comparison.
A more elaborate example from the same period, in the Art Institute
尼泊爾 約十七世紀 銅鎏金錘揲項鍊 of Chicago, is published in Pal, Himalayas: An Aesthetic Adventure,
Chicago, 2003, p.75, no.43. Also see Bégiun and Toffin, L’Art Newar
de la vallee de Kathmandu, Paris, 1990, p.63.

Provenance
Ex-Collection of Mrs J. Taylor, UK, acquired 1970s

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