Live Auction 19039Sacred and Imperial: The James and Marilynn Alsdorf Collection Part II
A GILT-COPPER FIGURE OF AMOGHAPASHA LOKESHVARA
Lot 944

A GILT-COPPER FIGURE OF AMOGHAPASHA LOKESHVARA

NEPAL, MALLA PERIOD, 14TH-15TH CENTURY

Closed24 September 2020

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A GILT-COPPER FIGURE OF AMOGHAPASHA LOKESHVARA
NEPAL, MALLA PERIOD, 14TH-15TH CENTURY
Standing with hips swayed in tribhanga, with the primary right hand held in abhayamudra and the left pendent and holding a water pot, the others spread around his body in various mudras and holding a noose, mala, book, trident, and flower, the face with downcast expression flanked by large foliate earrings and surmounted by a five-part foliate tiara, with the hair behind and piled in a chignon
7 1/8 in. (18.1 cm.) high

Andrew Rogers, Hong Kong, 19 February 1979.
The James and Marilynn Alsdorf Collection, Chicago.

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Compare the five-pointed crown; foliate jewelry motif; long necklaces; and the distinctive folds of the cascading dhoti of the present lot with a fifteenth-century Nepalese bronze figure of Amoghapasha sold at Bonhams New York, 17 September 2014, lot 2. Also compare the cascading dhoti with another contemporaneous Nepalese bronze figure of Avalokiteshvara, illustrated by U. von Schroeder, Buddhist Sculptures in Tibet: India and Nepal, Hong Kong, 2001, p. 502, no. 16A-B.