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A RED SANDSTONE HEAD OF GARUDA, MATHURA, KUSHAN PERIOD, CIRCA 3RD CENTURY
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04月16日 下午5点 开拍 /14天2小时
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A RED SANDSTONE HEAD OF GARUDA, MATHURA, KUSHAN PERIOD, CIRCA 3RD CENTURYCentral India. The expressively carved bird head features large, rounded eyes set beneath double-incised brows, a sharply hooked beak, and a short, upright crest. It is flanked by ears with elongated lobes suspending prominent earrings.Provenance: Property from the Nitta Group Collection, acquired by Nitta Muneichi in the 1950s-1960s. Nitta Muneichi (1912-2006) was born in Taipei as Peng Kai-dong. He left Taipei for Japan as an adolescent and later took on a Japanese name. He became a highly successful businessman with a company covering a wide range of different industries. After the Second World War, he opened an antique shop on Ginza in Tokyo and in 1950 he began collecting Buddhist bronzes, which eventually became his main collecting interest. An exhibition of his collection, titled The Crucible of Compassion and Wisdom, was held at the National Palace Museum, Taipei in 1987. In 2003 he donated 358 Buddhist bronzes from East, Southeast, and South Asia to the National Palace Museum, which exhibited them in 2004, in The Casting of Religion. A Special Exhibition of Mr. Peng Kai-dong's Donation. A further donation of forty-eight pieces was made after his death. A superb Dali gilt-bronze seated figure of Acuoye Guanyin formerly in the Nitta collection was sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 8 October 2022, lot 10, for a record price of HKD 48,775,000 or approx. EUR 5,656,000.Condition: Good condition, commensurate with age. Old wear, obvious losses, structural fissures, scattered nicks and scratches, small chips, signs of weathering and erosion, and encrustations.Weight: 11.5 kg (incl. stand) Dimensions: Height 25 cm (excl. stand), 32.5 cm (incl. stand)Mounted on an associated stand. (2)Due to its location on the caravan trade routes through central India, Mathura was for centuries an important economic center. In the 2nd and 3rd centuries, it became a capital for the mighty Kushan Empire.The mythical bird Garuda has a long ancestry in Indian mythology and was originally conceived as a sun bird. Because of Vishnu's early career as a solar deity in Vedic mythology, he came to inherit Garuda as his mount. Garuda is also an avowed enemy of snakes, trampling one here with his knee. Because he is a creature of fantasy, Garuda had particular appeal for the artists in all of Indian Asia and the countless varieties of his images reflect the unlimited possibilities of the human imagination.Literature comparison: Compare a related Mathura sandstone figure of Garuda carrying away a nagi, dated to the Kushan period, 3rd century, 68 cm high, in the Government Museum, Mathura, object number 38.2802, and illustrated in the Virtual Museum of Images & Sounds, accession number 44397.

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