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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE SALT LAKE CITY
COLLECTION

A GILT-COPPER REPOUSSÉ
FIGURE OF TARA
Nepal, 16th / 17th Century

Himalayan Art Resources item no. 13382.
Height: 22 ¼ in. (54 cm)

PROVENANCE
Acquired privately, Rosalind Ebert, New York,
1985.
Previously acquired from Albert Rudolph (1928-
1973), by repute.
Compare the current work to gilt copper
repoussé Tara now in the Musée Guimet, see J.
van Alphen, Cast for Eternity, Antwerp, 2004, p.
133, cat. no. 40. Also compare the earring type of
the current work with a repoussé Sitatara in the
Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, published in U.
von Schroeder, Indo-Tibetan Bronzes, Hong Kong,
1981, p. 381, pl. 102G.

$ 8,000-12,000

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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE CARMEL
COLLECTION

A GILT-COPPER SHRINE OF
MANJUSHRI AND SARASWATI
Nepal, dated by inscription 1784

Himalayan Art Resources item no. 13383.
Height: 16 ⅜ in. (41.6 cm)

PROVENANCE
Butter elds San Francisco, 5 November 2002,
lot 220.
The inscription on the reverse reads:
In Nepal samvat 904 (CE 1784), on the
twelfth day of the bright half of the Phalgunga
month, Chakranasimha Toradhra [Tuladhara]
commissioned this image of Akshobhya in the
memory of his deceased father Lakshmidhra and
mother Lakshmi. May it be auspicious.
Translation by Dr. Gautama A. Vajracharya,
Professor Emeritus, University of Wisconsin,
Madison.

$ 40,000-60,000

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