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■2 A RARE BLACK STONE FIGURE OF A JAIN TIRTHANKARA

RARE STATUE D’UN JAIN TIRTHANKARA CENTRAL INDIA, WESTERN RAJASTHAN REGION,
EN PIERRE NOIRE DATED 1098
INDE CENTRALE, REGION OCCIDENTALE
DU RAJASTHAN, DATE 1098 印度中部 拉賈斯坦邦西部 1098年
黑岩耆那教渡津者坐像
Il est représenté assis en vajrasana sur un piédestal orné 來源：
de motifs foraux. Ses mains en dhyanamudra sont posées 紐約蘇富比，1992年6月2日，lot 71
sur ses jambes. Les paumes de ses mains et la plante de 1980年代至2008年間為美國私人舊藏
ses pieds sont incisées de feurs stylisées. Son torse est 2008年至2013年間為西班牙私人舊藏
rehaussé de l’emblème srivatsa. 荷蘭私人收藏
Hauteur : 49 cm. (19º in.) 出版：

€45,000-55,000 $50,000-60,000 C. Rochell, Carlton Rochell Asian Art, New York, 2008,
£41,000-49,000 fg. 31.
M. Nies, The Path to Enlightenment, Antwerp, 2013,
PROVENANCE: p. 32-33.

Sotheby’s, New York, 2 June 1992, lot 71.
Private American collection, 1980s-2008.
Private Spanish collection, 2009-2013.
Private Belgian collection.

LITERATURE:

C. Rochell, Carlton Rochell Asian Art, New York, 2008, fg. 31.
M. Nies, The Path to Enlightenment, Antwerp, 2013,
p. 32-33.

Jainism was established in India around the sixth century

B.C. and fourished alongside Hinduism and Buddhism. The
ultimate goal of the Jains or ‘conquerors’ was to achieve
liberation from the cycle of reincarnations.
They worship a group of twenty-four omniscient teachers
or tirthankaras. Followers can be clothed or naked, and
the latter are known as ‘sky-clad’ (digambara). That sect
is rarer and its followers are entirely unclothed in token of
their complete renunciation of all material comforts. The
current stone tirthankara example belongs to the last group
and is depicted without clothes. Its polished fnishing and
fne sculpting suggest that it once graced a shrine of an
important temple. The date Samvat 1155 (1098 AD) can be
found on the cushion and enhances the importance of this
fne sacred image.
Art Loss Certifcate, Reference: S00078936, dated 25
September 2013.

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