A GILT-COPPER REPOUSSÉ FIGURE OF AVALOKITESHVARA Nepal, circa 16th Century

Himalayan Art Resources item no. 13381.

Acquired from a private Chilean collection.

Wear and heavy accretion overall. Losses to some separate repoussé elements, including proper left earring and proper left lower shawl element. And proper left crown sash at left ear. Splitting to wood base at reverse, stable. Overall sculpture and throne façade affixed to wood base.
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Compare a sixteenth century gilt-copper repoussé figure of Amoghasiddhi in the Chhauni museum, Kathmandu, see A. W. Macdonald et al., Newar Art, Warminster, 1979, p. 49, pl. 32, and compare the rare iconographic form of the bodhisattva with an eighteenth century Nepalese example in the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, see U. von Schroeder, Indo-Tibetan Bronzes, Hong Kong, 1981, p. 389, pl. 106G.