Indian & Himalayan Art, including Property from the Zimmerman Family Collection

Indian & Himalayan Art, including Property from the Zimmerman Family Collection

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Twelve Treasures from the Zimmerman Family Collection

A hardstone-inlaid gilt copper figure of Padmapani, Nepal, 13th / 14th century

Estimate

250,000 - 500,000 USD

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Description

Himalayan Art Resources item no. 2740.


stand (2)


Height 9 in., 22.7 cm

Collection of Jack (1926-2017) and Muriel (1929-2019) Zimmerman, acquired in the 1960s.

The virtuosity of the Newar artist is encapsulated in the graceful posture, compassionate gaze, subtle combination of gems and warm gilding of this classic Nepalese standing bodhisattva. The statue is modelled with broad shoulders and slim waist in the elegant proportions of youth and the idealized Buddhist vision of a princely savior. The right hand is lowered in the wish-fulfilling gesture (varada mudra), and the left is positioned to hold the stem of the flower that blossoms at his shoulder. The lotus flower identifies the figure as Padmapani (lotus-bearer), the most popular emanation of Avalokiteshvara in Nepal. The bodhisattva’s elegant standing posture (tribhanga) is one of Nepal’s most favored sculptural themes. Compare the Brooklyn Museum’s 13th century gilt-copper Padmapani, illustrated in Ulrich von Schroeder, Indo-Tibetan Bronzes, Hong Kong, 1981, pl. 88G; and the closely related sculptural detail and intense but compassionate gaze of a 13th century gilt-copper Uma-Maheshvara in the Museum of Replica Handbags s, Boston, ibid., pl. 89F.

 

The 13th and 14th centuries were golden eras for Nepalese artists. Newar sculptors and painters were commissioned throughout Tibet and by the Mongol court of the Yuan dynasty (1279-1368), but it is works like this Padmapani that convey the exquisite indigenous style of Nepalese art made for Kathmandu Valley patrons.

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