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A GILT BRONZE PANEL WITH APSARAS
TIBET, 16TH CENTURY

With three fying apsaras above cloud scrolls
with a foral spray between them, surrounded
by oil lamps, conch shells and votive offerings,
all encircled by beaded rim with faming
border, heavily cast and richly gilt
7º in. (18.5 cm.) high

$20,000-30,000

PROVENANCE:

The Sporer Collection, New Jersey,
acquired by 4 March 1973

PUBLISHED:

Himalayan Art Resource
(himalayanart.org), item no. 24055

Bronze panels of this type are
documented as part of the lotus base
for large sculpture in the Densatil
monastery; see P. Mele, Tibet, 1988,

p.62 and O.Czaja and A.Proser,
Golden Visions of Densatil: A
Tibetan Buddhist Monastery,
2014, pp.36-37, fg.15 and
pp.160-161, cat. no.41.

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