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IMPORTANTE STELE DE CHAMUNDA
EN GRES
INDE CENTRALE, REGION DU RAJASTHAN,
EPOQUE CHANDELLA, XIEME SIECLE
La déesse au corps émacié danse sur un démon.
Ses huit bras rayonnent autour d’elle, chacun
brandissant un attribut. Elle est vêtue d’un sari et
porte une guirlande de têtes coupées.
Hauteur : 109 cm. (43 in.), socle
€35,000-45,000 $39,000-49,000
£32,000-40,000
PROVENANCE:
Sotheby’s, New York, 16 September 1999, lot 117.
Sotheby’s, New York, 20 March 2001, lot 59.
Private Dutch collection.
EXHIBITED:
Museum aan de Stroom, Antwerp, India ontmoet
het MAS, 4 October 2013 to 12 January 2014.
LITERATURE:
M. Nies, Immortal Image, Antwerp, 2001, p. 18-19.
AN IMPORTANT SANDSTONE STELE OF
CHAMUNDA
CENTRAL INDIA, RAJASTHAN REGION,
CHANDELLA PERIOD, 11TH CENTURY
印度中部 拉賈斯坦邦地區 昌德拉時期
十一世紀 砂岩查蒙達女神立像碑
來源：
紐約蘇富比，1999年9月16日，lot 117
紐約蘇富比，2001年3月20日，lot 59
荷蘭私人收藏
出版：
M. Nies, Immortal Image, Antwerp, 2001, p. 18-19.
展覽：
荷蘭安特衛普 Museum aan de Stroom 博物
館, Antwerp, India ontmoet het MAS, 4 October
2013 to 12 January 2014
This monumental sculpture depicts the rare
fgure of Chamunda or the wrathful emaciated
form of Parvati. According to Hindu texts, she
emerged from the forehead of Durga, another
epithet of Parvati, in a terrifying form to conquer
the demon brothers Chanda and Munda. Her eight
hands hold attributes that could fulfll her task,
including a knife, a mace topped with a skull and
a skull-cup from which she drinks the blood of her
victims. Her powerful and destructive aspect is
expressed in her frenzied dance on the small fgure
of the ghost Petra. A garland of severed heads
emphasizes her ferocious character.
Art Loss Certifcate, Reference: S00064693,
dated 11 September 2012.
