Lot 11
A COPPER ALLOY FIGURE OF VISHNU JAVA, 9TH/10TH CENTURY
29 March 2018, 16:00 HKT
Hong Kong, Six Pacific PlaceSold for HK$375,000 inc. premium
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A COPPER ALLOY FIGURE OF VISHNU
JAVA, 9TH/10TH CENTURY
29 cm (11½ in). high
29 cm (11½ in). high
Footnotes
爪哇 九/十世紀 毗濕奴銅像
Provenance:
Private Collection, Singapore, acquired in 2000
Vishnu is the preserver and protector of the universe, called upon to save it from great calamity. In the current attitude, he is a martial deity, holding the mace and discus, and a conch to call troops to arms.
Compare with two closely related examples in the Metropolitan Museum of Art including a Vishnu that shares the same iconographic programme and a Garuda projecting from the base, (1987.142.15), see Lener and Kossak, The Lotus Transcendent, New York, p.188, no.146, and a standing Manjushri (acc. no. 2001.758.2) in a flexed pose.