Dora Tan
Head of Sale, Specialist
Lot 1018
A GILT COPPER ALLOY PLAQUE OF AN OFFERING GODDESS DENSATIL, CENTRAL TIBET, 14TH CENTURY
2 December 2021, 19:00 HKT
Hong Kong, Six Pacific PlaceSold for HK$227,500 inc. premium
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A GILT COPPER ALLOY PLAQUE OF AN OFFERING GODDESS
DENSATIL, CENTRAL TIBET, 14TH CENTURY
Himalayan Art Resources item no.4507
25 cm (9 7/8 in.) high
Himalayan Art Resources item no.4507
25 cm (9 7/8 in.) high
Footnotes
丹薩替 藏中 十四世紀 銅鎏金供養天女像
Sculptural images from Densatil are known for their sophisticated jewelry and Nepalese-inspired rounded physiognomy, as seen in this beautiful, four-armed offering goddess. Figural plaques such as the present work would have been attached to a larger rectangular panel, joined by three other offering goddesses, and would have appeared on the fifth tier of a tashi gomang stupa (working top to bottom). While some of these goddesses are easily detached from their panels, other surviving panels have four goddesses cast as a single piece, revealing a range of techniques used for making different stupas.
For a similar example, see Han Shuli, Xizang yishu jicui (A Treasury of Tibetan Art), 1995, pl.106. Also see Sotheby's Hong Kong, 3 October 2017, lot 3127.
Provenance:
Private Hong Kong Collection