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A TERRACOTTA BUST OF MANASA, THE SERPENT GODDESS, EASTERN INDIA, GUPTA PERIOD, EARLY 6TH CENTURY
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2025年10月16日 开拍
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Exhibited: Aicon Gallery, New York, Through the Ages: South Asian Sculpture and Painting from Antiquity to Modernism, New York, 16 March-12 May 2012. Superbly modeled, the voluptuous Goddess of Snakes with a slender waist and wide hips, finely adorned with a beaded head ornament, large earrings, and a multi-strand necklace that falls between her exaggerated breasts. Her facial features are precisely delineated, especially her almond-shaped eyes, with well-defined lids under arched brows, and pursed lips forming a gentle smile. The hair is modeled in ringlets and crowned with a tall tiara, all backed by a five-headed naga hood that shelters the deity.Provenance: From an important private collection in New York, United States, acquired in the early 2000s. According to the present owner, the present lot was also exhibited at TEFAF 2007 in Maastricht.Condition: Very good condition, commensurate with age. Ancient wear, obvious losses, small chips, old fills, signs of weathering and erosion, and encrustations.Weight: 8.1 kg (incl. stand)Dimensions: 41 cm (excl. stand), 59.5 cm (incl. stand)Mounted on an associated metal and plexiglass stand. Manasa is the goddess of snakes, worshiped mainly in Bengal and other parts of Eastern India, chiefly for the prevention and cure of snakebite and also for fertility and prosperity. Her myths emphasize her bad temper and unhappiness, due to rejection by her father Shiva and her husband, and the hate of her stepmother, Chandi (Shiva's wife, identified with Parvati in this context). Denied full godhead by her mixed parentage, Manasa's aim was to fully establish her authority as a goddess and to acquire steadfast human devotees. Manasa is depicted as being kind to her devotees, but harsh to people who refused to worship her.Terracotta was the traditional material for religious images in the Ganges Valley and in the Mauryan and Shunga periods (3rd-1st century BC). Bengal had been the source of some of the most sophisticated figures of gods and goddesses. In the Gupta period, several centers of terracotta sculpture emerged across the Empire, from Akhnur in Kashmir, down to Shravasti and Bitargaon in Uttar Pradesh, around the Gupta capital at Pataliputra (Patna), and down into the Ganges Delta where some of the richest red clays were available. The lack of stone in eastern Bihar and Bengal meant that clay had always been used for architectural purposes, brick adorned with terracotta or stucco being the most widely used material, and a number of archaeological sites in Bengal attest to the sophistication of the effects achieved.Literature comparison: Compare a closely related terracotta head of Manasa, Eastern India, Gupta period, dated early 6th century, 30 cm high, exhibited by John Eskenazi at Asian Art in London, November 2011. Compare a related terracotta bust of Vishnu, Gupta period, dated 5th-6th century, 29.2 cm high, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, object number 2000.82.13% VAT will be added to the hammer price additional to the buyer's premium - only for buyers within the EU.

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