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A MAGNIFICENT BLACK STONE STELE DEPICTING AN ENSHRINED VAIROCANA, PALA PERIOD, NORTHEASTERN INDIA, 11TH-12TH CENTURY
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2023年03月09日 开拍
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A MAGNIFICENT BLACK STONE STELE DEPICTING AN ENSHRINED VAIROCANA, PALA PERIOD, NORTHEASTERN INDIA, 11TH-12TH CENTURY
Expert’s note: This depiction of Vairocana shows the distinct Pala emphasis on figures with broad shoulders and chests, articulated waists, and almost square faces, with long, thin features.

Finely and deeply carved in high relief with Vairocana seated in dhyanasana on a lotus base, his right hand lowered in bhumisparsha mudra and his left resting on his lap, the primordial Buddha within a tri-lobed arched shrine supported by two columns and centered by a kirtimukha, surrounded by seated Buddhas in niches, the top corners each with a stupa.

Provenance: From a private collection in Bergamo, Italy, acquired in the antiques trade during the late 1980s and early 1990s. Collection of Leonardo Vigorelli, Bergamo, acquired from the above. Leonardo Vigorelli is a retired Italian art dealer and noted collector, specializing in African and ancient Hindu-Buddhist art. After studying anthropology and decades of travel as well as extensive field research in India, the Himalayan region, Southeast Asia, and Africa, he founded the Dalton Somaré art gallery in Milan, Italy, which today is being run by his two sons.
Condition:
Very good condition, commensurate with age. Wear, minor losses, small nicks, light scratches, few minor cracks, signs of weathering and erosion, encrustations.

Dimensions: Height 59 cm (excl. stand) and 60 cm (incl. stand)

Mounted on an associated stand. (2)

Vairocana, also known as the primordial Buddha, is a celestial deity central to many Buddhist sutras and the development of Vajrayana Tantric Buddhism. This stele was likely one of five panels, each depicting one of the five Dhyani Buddhas, who represent the five mental and physical aggregates that make up the whole of cosmic and individual existence.

Auction result comparison:
Type: Closely related
Auction: Christie’s New York, 18 March 2015, lot 4049
Price: USD 32,500 or approx. EUR 37,000 converted and adjusted for inflation at the time of writing
Description: A stone stele depicting Vairocana, Northeastern India, Pala period, 11th/12th century
Expert remark: Note the smaller size (51.4 cm)

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