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A PAUBHA OF SHIVA ENSHRINED Also compare a closely related paubha depicting Saiva shrines in Pal,
NEPAL, EARLY-MID 18TH CENTURY Art of Nepal,, Los Angeles, 1985, p.74, no.P30. About their common
Distemper on cloth. architecture, Pal notes, “Rising in three tiers, the central shrine is a
Himalayan Art Resources item no.61960 copy of a temple design popular in the Kathmandu valley during the
28 1/2 x 22 1/4 in. (72.4 x 56.5 cm) seventeenth century”.
$20,000 - 30,000 Provenance
English Private Collection, 1997
尼泊爾 十八世紀早中期 濕婆博巴 Christie’s, New York, 12 September 2012, lot 563
This painting depicts Shiva seated above adoring Nandis at the center
of a shrine. Stylistic similarities are found among the facial types and
treatment of surrounding figures in a paubha of Vishnu, dated 1716 CE,
formerly in the Jucker Collection (Kreijer, Kathmandu Valley Painting,
Boston, 1999, p.63, no.18). Also notable is the distinctive treatment
of supporting pillars and white balustrades shared in both paintings,
indicating an early-mid-18th-century date for the present lot as well.
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