拍品信息
拍品名称
尼泊爾 1300年（據銘文） 銅鎏金財源天母像 | A GILT COPPER ALLOY FIGURE OF VASUDHARA
年代
NEPAL, DATED 1300
起拍价
HKD 300,000
估值区间
HKD 300000 - 400000
尺寸
未知
品相
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NEPAL, DATED 1300
Inscribed in Newari around the lower edge of the lotus base, translated, 'I pay homage to goddess Vasudhara. Together with my family, we worship, invoke, and consecrate this sacred image of the goddess on the auspicious day of Baishakh sukla astami, Nepal Samvat 420 [1299/1300 CE], praying for the well-being and prosperity of all sentient beings.'
Himalayan Art Resources item no. 8880
15 cm (5 7/8 in.) high
Footnotes
尼泊爾 1300年（據銘文） 銅鎏金財源天母像
Provenance
Private American Collection, 2015
John and Karina Stewart Collection
Among the most beloved deities of the Nepalese Buddhist tradition, Vasudhara is the giver of abundance in every form, presiding over prosperity of both body and spirit. Her hands hold the emblems of her gifts—the water pot of sustenance, the sheaf of grain, the strand of jewels, and the Prajnaparamita Sutra, source of the highest wisdom—so that fertility, nourishment, wealth, and knowledge are offered together within her aureole of arms. Her lavish jewellery identifies her as a bodhisattva, one who traverses both earthly and celestial realms in service of all sentient beings. One of the principal deities to emerge with the crystallization of Buddhist cults in Nepal, she holds these many attributes in serene equilibrium, her expression warm with empathy and generosity.
Modelled with yielding forms and fluid gesture, the figure's sensuous contours, its gentle stillness and its lavish ornament are quintessentially Nepalese. Almost without exception, Nepalese goddesses were represented with rounded breasts, youthful bodies, and untroubled faces. These attributes reflect an artistic inheritance from India, where the divine and the sensual had long been conceived as mutually entwined. Consistent with the broader corpus of Vasudhara imagery, such conventions of posture and countenance were only rarely set aside.
A closely comparable example, sold at Christie's, Hong Kong, 30 November 2020, lot 3012, shares the same taut yet fleshy modelling. Another, formerly in the Jules Speelman Collection (Bonhams, Paris, 11 June 2024, lot 2), mirrors the present figure almost feature for feature—the fine arched brows above heavy lids, the rounded chin, the pursed lower lip beneath the tip of the nose—the whole composed in the same beatific repose. A third closely related example is held in the Cleveland Museum of Art (1947.493).
Inscribed in Newari around the lower edge of the lotus base, translated, 'I pay homage to goddess Vasudhara. Together with my family, we worship, invoke, and consecrate this sacred image of the goddess on the auspicious day of Baishakh sukla astami, Nepal Samvat 420 [1299/1300 CE], praying for the well-being and prosperity of all sentient beings.'
Himalayan Art Resources item no. 8880
15 cm (5 7/8 in.) high
Footnotes
尼泊爾 1300年（據銘文） 銅鎏金財源天母像
Provenance
Private American Collection, 2015
John and Karina Stewart Collection
Among the most beloved deities of the Nepalese Buddhist tradition, Vasudhara is the giver of abundance in every form, presiding over prosperity of both body and spirit. Her hands hold the emblems of her gifts—the water pot of sustenance, the sheaf of grain, the strand of jewels, and the Prajnaparamita Sutra, source of the highest wisdom—so that fertility, nourishment, wealth, and knowledge are offered together within her aureole of arms. Her lavish jewellery identifies her as a bodhisattva, one who traverses both earthly and celestial realms in service of all sentient beings. One of the principal deities to emerge with the crystallization of Buddhist cults in Nepal, she holds these many attributes in serene equilibrium, her expression warm with empathy and generosity.
Modelled with yielding forms and fluid gesture, the figure's sensuous contours, its gentle stillness and its lavish ornament are quintessentially Nepalese. Almost without exception, Nepalese goddesses were represented with rounded breasts, youthful bodies, and untroubled faces. These attributes reflect an artistic inheritance from India, where the divine and the sensual had long been conceived as mutually entwined. Consistent with the broader corpus of Vasudhara imagery, such conventions of posture and countenance were only rarely set aside.
A closely comparable example, sold at Christie's, Hong Kong, 30 November 2020, lot 3012, shares the same taut yet fleshy modelling. Another, formerly in the Jules Speelman Collection (Bonhams, Paris, 11 June 2024, lot 2), mirrors the present figure almost feature for feature—the fine arched brows above heavy lids, the rounded chin, the pursed lower lip beneath the tip of the nose—the whole composed in the same beatific repose. A third closely related example is held in the Cleveland Museum of Art (1947.493).
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