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A RARE SANDSTONE FIGURE OF A LION, MADHYA OR UTTAR PRADESH, CIRCA 8TH CENTURY
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04月10日 下午5点 开拍
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India. Powerfully sculpted in a recumbent pose with the legs tucked in and the long tail curled over the back, the flowing mane richly carved, the head skillfully detailed with round eyes, prominent snout, and the mouth agape revealing teeth and tongue.Provenance: From a private estate in Western France.Condition: Excellent condition, commensurate with age. Wear, obvious losses, signs of weathering, encrustations, nicks, scratches.Dimensions: Length 52 cmFreestanding sculptures of lions are often seen in the temple complexes of central India. They are also seen on the flat ledge above the frontal projection of the shikhara (temple tower) which rises above the threshold of the temple sanctum. Its prominent location would highlight the role of the lion both as guardian of the temple and as an assistant in the process of divine illumination. The fully carved and supple body with a naturalistic mane around its head suggests continuation from a late Gupta idiom and places this lion in the eighth century.The earliest existing visual portrayals of lions in South Asia are the Maurya columns, such as the Lion Capital of Ashoka at Sarnath, which has been adapted into the National Emblem of India. Some scholars believe that lions were introduced into India from western Asia as a quarry for royal hunts, implying that they became a feral population thereafter and eventually became wild. This is suggested to have resulted from the contact of the South Asian dynasties with the Achaemenid and Seleucid empires when hunting lions became a sign of royal prowess. The Achaemenids had inherited the pastime from western Asia. There is evidence from Syria of lion hunts and lion menageries with caged lions in the early fourth millennium BC.When Emperor Ashoka converted to Buddhism in the wake of large-scale killing and destruction by his army in Kalinga, or what is today Odisha in eastern India, he gave a new direction to the imaginative treatment of the lion: from being a symbolic object of royal domination, the lion became an emblem of royal prowess. The lion became a powerful symbol of Buddha. His teachings are sometimes referred to as the 'Lion's Roar', indicative of their strength and power. The lion is also a symbol of the Shakya clan, from which Shakyamuni descended.Auction result comparison: Type: Closely related Auction: Christie's Paris, 22 June 2016, lot 8 Price: EUR 37,500 or approx. EUR 44,500 adjusted for inflation at the time of writing : A monumental buff sandstone figure of a lion, India, Madhya or Uttar Pradesh, circa 8th century Expert remark: Compare the closely related modeling, manner of carving, and subject, with similar mane and long tail curled over the back. Note the different size (107 cm).

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