A NEPALESE GILDED-COPPER REPOUSSE PLAQUE DEPICTING KAUMARI

A NEPALESE GILDED-COPPER REPOUSSE PLAQUE DEPICTING KAUMARI
17TH CENTURY

The four-armed Goddess Kaumari, one of the eight Atamatrka (Mother Goddesses), stands on her vahana, the peacock mayura, holding peacock feathers, mayurapattra, in the upper right hand, a kapala in her lower right hand and the left in varada mudra, a gesture of charity, the arched plaque is mounted on a wooden panel, 15cm.

Provenance: from the collection of Norman Blount (1875-1930). Norman Blount was a jute broker, as well as the joint secretary (with the artist Abanindranath Tagore) of the Indian Society of Oriental Art, which was founded in 1907 in Calcutta, with Lord Kitchener the Society’s President.

十七世紀 尼泊爾銅鎏金菩薩像
來源：諾曼·布朗特（1875-1930）收藏。諾曼布朗特曾是一個黃麻經銷商，與藝術家泰戈爾一起擔任了印度東方藝術協會的聯合秘書（1907年於加爾各答成立），而霍雷肖•赫伯特•基奇納元帥(1850-1916)為協會主席。