A RARE COPPER FIGURE OF PADMAPANI

Estimated Value:

3.000 € - 5.000 €

Schätzpreis:

3.000 €

Description:

Nepal, Licchavi revilval style, 18th c.
H. 14,5 cm
Seated in lalitasana on a lotus-base with his right foot supported by a smaller lotus issued by the main lotus, his right hand in varadamudra while the left is elegantly placed on the lotus-base while holding the stem of a lotus flowering along his left arm, wearing dhoti, scarf across his chest, bejewelled, his face displaying a serene expression with downcast eyes below arched eyebrows, elongated earlobes with large ear-discs, his hair combed in a chignon decorated with a floral ornament and a flaming head-halo behind, traces of cold-gilding and blue pigments
Important German private collection, assembled in the 1970s and 80s, partly acquired by Schoettle East Asian Art, Stuttgart
Wear, traces of age

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