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A GILT LACQUER AND POLYCHROME WOOD PANEL The panel depicts one of the Pancha Raksha Goddesses, or “Five
WITH PROTECTOR GODDESS Protectors”. Each goddess personifies a sacred mantra that promotes
NEPAL, 13TH/14TH CENTURY the reciter’s welfare and happiness. There are countless variations in
Himalayan Art Resources item no.30869 how the Pancha Raksha are depicted; here, the goddess has the body
8 7/8 x 15 3/4 in. (22.5 x 40 cm) of an ogre with six arms and three heads, the primary head consuming
a snake, symbolizing her transmogrification of physical and spiritual
$16,000 - 22,000 poisons.

尼泊爾 十三/十四世紀 漆金彩繪守護佛母木質飾板 This panel belongs to a well-known group dispersed throughout
several institutions and private collections, the most significant
found within the David R. Nalin Collection, published in Kerin, Artful
Beneficence, New York, 2009, pp.74-9, cat. nos.41-42e. Most panels
portray a single deity framed by elaborate foliate scrolls similar to
this, and several depict Pancha Raksha Godesses. For example,
see two previously sold at Bonhams, New York, 18 March 2013, lot
148 and Bonhams, Hong Kong, 29 November 2016, lot 118.

Provenance
Plum Blossoms Gallery, Hong Kong, 2000s
Mehmet Hassan Asian Art, Bangkok
Private American Collection

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