Mouseover Zoom loading...
Lot 94
TWO GILT-BRONZE FIGURES OF PANTHAKA AND NAGASENA
Estimated Value:
2.000 € - 3.000 €
Schätzpreis:
Description:
Tibet, 18th/ 19th c.H. 11,3 und 9,4 cm
The first seated in lalitasana on a cushion with his right hand holding manuscript and the left in vitarkamudra, wearing monastic garment, his face displaying a serene expression with downcast eyes and a shaven hairdo, resealed; and the second seated as well in lalitasana, holding the mendicant staff and vase, wearing monastic garment, his cold-gilded face displaying a serene expression and shaven hair, resealed.
From an old and important German private collection, collected between 1950 and 1987, collection numbers C 2 and 3
Published: U. Toyka-Fuong, Ikonographie und Symbolik des tibetischen Buddhismus, Otto Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden, 1987, C 2 and C 3, pp. 16, 17, 18 and 19 - Very minor traces of age
