拍品信息
拍品名称
尼泊爾 十八世紀 太陽神銅像 | A COPPER ALLOY FIGURE OF SURYA
年代
NEPAL, 18TH CENTURY
起拍价
HKD 40,000
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NEPAL, 18TH CENTURY
Himalayan Art Resources item no. 207035
21 cm (8 1/4 in.) high
Footnotes
尼泊爾 十八世紀 太陽神銅像
Provenance
Koller Auktionen, Zürich, 6 June 2016, lot 118
John and Karina Stewart Collection
Surya, the sun god, stands on his chariot, flanked by two bow-bearing devotees and a diminutive charioteer at the front, guiding the horses. The composition is enclosed within an elaborate torana arch of traditional form with scrolling foliage and makara heads emitting large foliate elements; compare with a 14th–15th century Nepalese painting of Chandra, the moon god, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (1981.465). The chariot recalls the form of large wooden processional chariots characteristic of the Kathmandu Valley. A related depiction of Surya is seen in a later inlaid gilt-metal devotional plaque, Nepal, Newari, 19th/20th century, sold at Bonhams, San Francisco, 21 June 2011, lot 8192A. Also see related 18th-century shrines in the British Museum, London (1880.373 & 1896,0309.1).
Himalayan Art Resources item no. 207035
21 cm (8 1/4 in.) high
Footnotes
尼泊爾 十八世紀 太陽神銅像
Provenance
Koller Auktionen, Zürich, 6 June 2016, lot 118
John and Karina Stewart Collection
Surya, the sun god, stands on his chariot, flanked by two bow-bearing devotees and a diminutive charioteer at the front, guiding the horses. The composition is enclosed within an elaborate torana arch of traditional form with scrolling foliage and makara heads emitting large foliate elements; compare with a 14th–15th century Nepalese painting of Chandra, the moon god, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (1981.465). The chariot recalls the form of large wooden processional chariots characteristic of the Kathmandu Valley. A related depiction of Surya is seen in a later inlaid gilt-metal devotional plaque, Nepal, Newari, 19th/20th century, sold at Bonhams, San Francisco, 21 June 2011, lot 8192A. Also see related 18th-century shrines in the British Museum, London (1880.373 & 1896,0309.1).
