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1195 PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE GREENWICH COLLECTION

1196 A GRAY STONE STELE DEPICTING PARVATI
90 SOTHEBY’S NEPAL, 12TH CENTURY

the goddess standing in samabhanga on a double lotus throne,
with the left hand on her hip and the right hand extended
holding a lotus bud atop blooming lotus owers, elegantly
coi ed wearing an elaborate headdress, with ringlets of
hair cascading over the headdress and down her rounded
shoulders, wearing large circular earrings and diaphanous
garments
Height 16½ in., 40.6 cm

PROVENANCE
Sotheby’s New York, 22nd March 1989, lot 27.

$ 4,000-6,000

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1195

PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF DR. JOHN MANN SOLD
TO BENEFIT THE CENTER OF SPIRITUAL AWAKENING

A COPPER DAKINI AND COPPER REPOUSSÉ
DURGA
NEPAL, 16TH CENTURY

Himalayan Art Resources item no. 13099.
the plaque with multi-armed Durga at center holding a variety
of weapons, standing in erce alidhasana atop a lotus throne
and the bu alo demon; the dakini with resplendent jewelry,
holding a katrika in the raised right hand and a kapala in the left
hand, with a khatvanga in the crook of the left elbow (2)
Height 7¾ in., 19.7 cm and 4 in., 10.2 cm

PROVENANCE
Rudi Oriental Arts, New York City, 1960s.

$ 1,500-2,500

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1196

A POLYCHROMED WOOD TARA TRIAD
NEPAL, 16TH / 17TH CENTURY

Himalayan Art Resources item no. 13101.
the bodhisattva Green Tara seated at center in lalitasana on a
lotus throne, anked by Red Tara on the right and yellow Tara
on the left, the three goddess with the right hands in varada
mudra and the left hands raised, surmounted by a high throne
ornamented with a kirtimukha, roundels and two large makara
Height 11 in., 28 cm

PROVENANCE
Rudi Oriental Arts, New York City, 1960s.

$ 1,000-1,500

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