Page 34 - Indian, Himalayan and Tibetan Art March 2018
P. 34
1023
PROPERTY FROM A EUROPEAN CORPORATE COLLECTION
AN ELEGANT BRONZE FIGURE OF APPAR
Southern India, circa 13th Century
The saint pictured standing in graceful tribhanga on a lotus
base over a square plinth, with his hands folded before his
chest cupping a ball of ! owers, clad in a short veshti and
adorned with rudraksha beads, his face with large almond-
shaped eyes, pointed nose and beati> c smile.
Height: 22 ¾ in. (59 cm)
PROVENANCE
Dr. J.R. Belmont, Basel, before 1968.
Pan-Asian Collection, 1968-1983.
Christie’s New York, 13th September 2011, lot 270.
EXHIBITED
On loan to the Denver Art Museum, 1977-1983.
$ 400,000-600,000
(!"#"!$")
32 SOTHEBY’S
