Arts d'Asie
Arts d'Asie
Property from an important European private collection | 歐洲私人收藏
Auction Closed
June 16, 02:39 PM GMT
Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 EUR
Lot Details
Description
Property from an important European private collection
A rare carved stone pedestal
India, Bihar, Pala period (8th-12th century), 10th-11th century
the shaped and tiered pedestal depicting a Buddha standing within a shrine at the forefront, with lotus flowers carved in low relief above and an inscription on the upper register
36 x 58 x 14 cm, 14 1/8 by 22 7/8 by 5 1/2 in.
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Collection particulière européenne
Trône d'une statue bouddhiste en pierre sculptée, Inde, Bihar, époque Pala (VIIIe-XIIe siècle), Xe-XIe siècle
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印度 比哈爾邦 帕拉時期 十至十一世紀 石雕須彌座
Buddha is depicted standing within a niche wearing a long diaphanous robe and with his right hand lowered in varada mudra, the gesture of charity and bestowal of blessings, with the ye dharma Buddhist creed inscribed in Sanskrit on the tiered pedestal above: cf. an inscribed Pala stone frieze with seated Buddhas in the Norton Simon Museum, see Pratapaditya Pal, Art from the Indian Subcontinent, New Haven and London, 2003, Vol. I, p. 177, cat. 137. Like the Norton Simon frieze, which Pal compares with a similar fragment found at Nalanda, ibid, the niche is formed of pillars supported by auspicious water vessels, kalasha, with a trilobate arch above. Another fragment from the same period and region, depicting a seated Buddha in similar style, is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, ac. no. 1997.138