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A GILT-COPPER FIGURE OF
AMOGHAPASHA LOKESHVARA
NEPAL, MALLA PERIOD, 14TH-15TH CENTURY
Standing with hips swayed in tribhanga, with
the primary right hand held in abhayamudra
and the left pendent and holding a water pot,
the others spread around his body in various
mudras and holding a noose, mala, book,
trident, and flower, the face with downcast
expression flanked by large foliate earrings
and surmounted by a five-part foliate tiara,
with the hair behind and piled in a chignon
7¿ in. (18.1 cm.) high
$20,000-30,000

PROVENANCE:
Andrew Rogers, Hong Kong, 19 February
1979.
The James and Marilynn Alsdorf Collection,
Chicago.

Compare the five-pointed crown; foliate
jewelry motif; long necklaces; and the
distinctive folds of the cascading dhoti of the
present lot with a fifteenth-century Nepalese
bronze figure of Amoghapasha sold at
Bonhams New York, 17 September 2014,
lot 2. Also compare the cascading dhoti with
another contemporaneous Nepalese bronze
figure of Avalokiteshvara, illustrated by U.
von Schroeder, Buddhist Sculptures in Tibet:
India and Nepal, Hong Kong, 2001, p. 502,
no. 16A-B.

尼泊爾 馬拉王朝 十四/十五世紀
鎏金銅不空羂索觀音立像
來源:
Andrew Rogers, 香港, 1979年2月19日入藏。
詹姆斯及瑪麗蓮·阿爾斯多夫珍藏，芝加哥。

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