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A BONE FIGURE PROBABLY OF RAMA The treatment of the face, tiered crown, and exaggerated torso,
ORISSA, CIRCA 17TH CENTURY corresponds to figure cast in brass from Orissa variously attributed
9 cm (3 1/2 in.) high between the 15th and 19th centuries. Compare a pair of examples
depicting Rama and Lakshmana sold at Bonhams, New York, 19
HKD10,000 - 20,000 March 2019, lot 85, and another of Krishna published in van Alphen,
Cast for Eternity, Antwerp, 2005, p. 95, no. 25. Also see an Orissan
奧里薩邦 約十七世紀 骨雕神祇像 或為羅摩 ivory plaque depicting Krishna and gopis, sold at Sotheby’s, London, 6
September 2015, lot 121.
This superbly modeled, dynamic figure likely represents Rama and
would have been a part of a larger group illustrating a scene from Provenance
the Ramayana. The figure is carved in a battle pose, brandishing the Private California Collection, acquired in Cape Town in the 1980s
remaining hilt of a weapon in the right hand and the remains of a bow
in his left.
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