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846 | A RARE BASTAR BRONZE ELEPHANT BASE
OIL LAMP, 19th to 20th CENTURY
India. A fabulous bastar bronze elephant base oil lamp, with two
peacocks standing on the top. The elephant is decorated with
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841 | A HEAVILY CAST BRONZE FIGURE OF 842 | A BASTAR BRONZE OF A SEATED DEVI, DIVINITY TIRTHANKARA, C. 15th CENTURY
BALAKRISHNA, 18TH-19TH CENTURY 19TH CENTURY
Western India. A tirthankara, or jina, seated in a fully meditative
India. Depicting Krishna as the Divine Baby, known as Balakrishna, Bastar, South India. A small figure of a seated village deity on a position under a baldachin. Multi-tiered pedestal with decorative
crawling on his hands and knees with a ball of butter stolen from square conical base. Wearing a dhoti with a leaf apron, a heavy openwork and multiple accompanying figures strung together
his mother Yashoda’s churn. The massive bronze is decorated bejeweled necklace and beaded jewelry in her hair and ears, vertically on the arch-shaped background. On the back is an
with fine incisions forming the facial features, dress and limbs. holding a scepter decorated with volutes in one hand and a fruit inscription, probably with – as is typical – a dating. The figure of
in the other. the naked jina is delicately executed, deep patina and somewhat
worn down due to cultic “grasping”.
Condition: Excellent condition with minor wear and a fine patina.
Provenance: From the collection of Georg Weifert (1850-1937). Condition: Good condition with minor wear, some dents and
Thence by descent in the same family. Weifert was a Serbo- nicks. Condition: Good condition with a fine and honest patina; minor
Austrian industrialist and the first governor of the Federal Bank of Provenance: Austrian private collection. losses.
the Kingdom of Serbia, Croatia and Slovenia. Provenance: Ex North German private collection, acquired
Weight: 63.5 g. before 1956 according to information provided.
Weight: 2,394 g. Dimensions: Height 5.5 cm.
Dimensions: Height 15.3 cm. Dimensions: Height 10.8 cm.
Estimate EUR 250,-
Literature comparison: Compare with a similar but slightly older Starting price EUR 125,- Estimate EUR 400,-
copper alloy figure of Balakrishna at the Philadelphia Museum Starting price EUR 200,-
of Art.
Estimate EUR 1.000,- 844 | TWO SMALL INDIAN BRONZE FIGURES,
Starting price EUR 500,- 19TH CENTURY 847 | A GROUP OF THREE BASTAR BRONZE 848 | A RARE INDIAN BRONZE OF STANDING
FIGURES, 19th to 20th CENTURY KRISHNA WITH NAGA, 19th CENTURY
India. One bronze depicting Garuda in zoomorphic form with a
skeletal body and large open wings around it, the flat back with a India. Two warriors mounted on their horse with a weapon on South-India. A rare and unusual depiction - Krishna is standing on
loop for suspension as a pendant. The other depicting a female their right hand, and the rein on their left hand. The middle one the coiled tail of a single-head Naga and holding balls of butter in
843 | A VERY RARE BASTAR BRONZE NANDI, deity, possibly Parvati, sitting cross-legged on a stepped square is a dancing man with a horn or bugle. He plays the bugle and both of his hands.
19th CENTURY base with her hands clasped together. (2) dances to inspiring the army.
India. Very graceful depiction of a small Nandi decorated with Condition: Excellent condition.
geometric patterns all over the body and with an expressive Condition: Good condition with fine patina, the Parvati figure Condition: Excellent condition. Provenance: Private collection
face; each horn points in the opposite direction and the legs are with few malachite speckles and encrustations, minor wear and Provenance: Austrian private collection. of an Indian gentleman.
strangely short and stubby. some dents.
Provenance: Austrian private collection. Dimensions: From right to left - 12.3 cm, 10.5 cm and 10.5 cm Dimensions: Height 11 cm.
with base, 9 cm without base.
Condition: Good condition with extensive wear and patina. Weight: 69.3 g. Estimate EUR 400,-
Provenance: Austrian Private collection. Dimensions: Height 4.0 cm (Parvati) and 4.7 cm (Garuda). Estimate EUR 150,- Starting price EUR 200,-
Starting price EUR 75,-
Weight: 180 g. Estimate EUR 400,-
Dimensions: Length 9.5 cm. Starting price EUR 200,-
Estimate EUR 200,-
Starting price EUR 100,-

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