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A GILT-COPPER REPOUSSÉ PLAQUE DEPICTING KUMARI, NEPAL, 16TH-17TH CENTURY
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2024年10月18日 开拍
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A GILT-COPPER REPOUSSé PLAQUE DEPICTING KUMARI, NEPAL, 16TH-17TH CENTURY

Finely cast, standing in tribhanga with legs crossed atop her peacock mount, her principal left hand held in vitarka mudra and the right holding a kapala while her secondary hands hold a peacock feather (mayurapattra) and a dart (shakti). She is wearing a diaphanous dhoti secured at the waist by a billowing sash extending down the sides of her legs, and adorned with neatly incised jewelry. Her face with almond-shaped eyes, an aquiline nose, arched brows, and an urna beneath a five-paneled tiara securing her voluminous dark hair. The sides are pierced for mounting.

Provenance: From the private collection of Norman Blount (1875-1930), and thence by descent in the same family. Norman Blount was a British merchant active in Calcutta as a jute broker and senior partner of the firm Sinclair Murray & Co. In Calcutta, he co-founded and served as a secretary of the Indian Society of Oriental Art. The Society met monthly and organized art exhibitions, taught students, and published high-quality reproductions and illustrated journals. Horatio Herbert Kitchener (Lord Kitchener) was the Society’s first President.
Condition: Good condition with expected old wear and traces of use, manufacturing flaws, small dents, minor losses.

Weight: 150.5 g
Dimensions: Height 14.8 cm

Seated on a peacock, Kumari represents the source (shakti) of the Hindu god Kumara's power (also known as Skanda or Kartikeya). She is popularly worshipped in Nepal as part of a group of Mother Goddesses (maitrikas). The word Kumari is derived from Sanskrit and means “princess”.

Literature comparison:
Compare a related gilt-copper repoussé plaque of Kumari dated to the 17th century, in the Rubin Museum of Art, illustrated on Himalayan Art Resources, item number 65693. Compare a related gilt-copper repoussé plaque depicting a lion-headed deity of tantric form, 16.5 cm high, dated 16th-17th century, in the Brooklyn Museum, accession number 73.99.25.

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