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NEPALESE SCULPTURE AND PAINTINGS

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PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE BROOKLYN COLLECTOR ANOTHER PROPERTY PROVENANCE
A SMALL COPPER ALLOY FIGURE OF A POLYCHROME WOOD MANUSCRIPT Collection of the late Mr. Stafford Elias, London,
BUDDHA COVER circa 1960’s and thence by descent.
Nepal, 12th/13th Century Nepal, 11th Century Compare the style of a dharmachakra Buddha in
a Nepalese palm leaf Prajnaparamita manuscript
Himalayan Art Resources item no. 13620. depicting seven teaching Buddhas, with hands dated 1071 in the collection of the Asiatic Society,
Height 1¾ in. (4.4 cm.) in dharmachakramudra, wearing diaphanous red Kolkata, with similarly edged robe, neckline and
uttarasangha, and maroon antaravasaka showing fall of cloth from the lower arms, see Pratapaditya
PROVENANCE at the ankles, seated in vajraparyankasana, the Pal and Julia Meech-Pekarik, Buddhist Book
Christie’s London, Asian Decorative Arts, April 3, heads with alternate red and blue halos, each Illuminations, New York, Paris, Hong Kong, New
2003, lot 72. with rainbow-edged prabhamandala, all set on a Delhi, 1988, p. 101, fig. 34: and compare the
monochrome red background, with seated deities format of early Nepalese book covers recorded by
$ 2,000-3,000 at either end wearing bodhisattva jewellery and Pt. Rahula Sanskityayana in 1928-9 and 1934 in
fluttering scarves, seated in vajraparyankasana the collections of Tibetan monasteries including
with similar prabhamandala and partially Ngor and Shalu, where the figures are surrounded
obscured by natural accretion from handling by similar large circular halos set against an
during ritual use unembellished monochrome background, see
Himalayan Art Resources item no. 13630. S. K. Pathak, ed, The Album of the Tibetan Art
2 by 22½ in. (5 by 57.2 cm.) Collections, Patna, 1986, pls. 16, 18.
$ 30,000-50,000

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