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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE NEW YORK CITY COLLECTION A GILT-COPPER REPOUSSÉ FIGURE OF
AVALOKITESHVARA
A GILT-COPPER REPOUSSÉ CROWN OF Nepal, circa 16th Century
INDRA INLAID WITH PASTE AND
SEMI-PRECIOUS STONES Himalayan Art Resources item no. 13381.
Nepal, 17th Century Height: 16 in. (40.6 cm)
Himalayan Art Resources item no. 13380. PROVENANCE
Height: 15 in. (38.1 cm)
Acquired from a private Chilean collection.
PROVENANCE
Tepper Galleries, Inc., New York, 25 August 2001, lot 927. Compare a sixteenth century gilt-copper repoussé gure of
Christie’s New York, 17 September 1998, lot 51. Amoghasiddhi in the Chhauni museum, Kathmandu, see A. W.
Macdonald et al., Newar Art, Warminster, 1979, p. 49, pl. 32,
$ 15,000-20,000 and compare the rare iconographic form of the bodhisattva
with an eighteenth century Nepalese example in the Asian Art
8 SOTHEBY’S Museum of San Francisco, see U. von Schroeder, Indo-Tibetan
Bronzes, Hong Kong, 1981, p. 389, pl. 106G.
$ 25,000-35,000
