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9/2/2020 Indian, Himalayan & Southeast Asian Works of Art | Sotheby's
Indian, Hi ma layan & Southeast Asian Works of Art
New York |22 Sep 2020 | 12:00 PM EDT
Lot 321
A GILT COPPE R FIGURE OF INDRA , NEPAL, 15TH CENTURY
Estimate: 12,000 - 18,000 USD
PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE EUROPEAN COLLECTOR
A GILT COPPER FIGURE OF INDRA
NEPAL, 15TH CENTURY
Height 5 ¼ in. (13.5 cm)
Himalayan Art Resources item no. 13748.
Provenance
Private European Collection
Catalogue Note
Compare the posture, hand gestures, jewelry and flower design with a fifteenth century Nepalese gilt copper Indra formerly in the
Nasli and Alice Heeramaneck Collection and now in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, see Pratapaditya Pal, Art of Nepal, Los
Angeles, 1985, p. 119, cat. S42, illus. p. 50.
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