Bust in pink sandstone, sculpted with a female head, a snake's head on her left, probably representing Shiva Nagaraja.
Dim. 19 x 22 cm
(Old damage, small missing parts and chips)
PROVENANCE Moreau-Gobard Collection.
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°Importante sculpture en bois laqué et anciennement doré représentant un roi-serpent nagaraja debout en position de gardien, le pied droit reposant sur le corps d'un serpent. Il est richement paré d'un collier de perles, boucles d'oreilles et diadème, couronné par cinq serpents d'où s'échappent des volutes.
Il brandit de ses deux mains une hampe, terminée par un vajra, en direction du ciel afin d'invoquer l'ondée fertilisante, en tant que génie des pluies et protecteur des richesses.
Hauteur: 97 cm.
État: manques (haut de la hampe, volute, diadème et fragments du serpent), sautes de laques,...
Lot comprising a horn subject (Indonesia) representing Garuda terracing Nagaraja (small missing part at the back of the head); a terracotta tsatsa representing
Yamantaka and his shakti; this particular shape with three faces on each side and three faces arranged vertically allows us to link this tsatsa to the Gelugpa school (the founder of this school, Tsongkhapa, had received the vision of this deity in a particular form), and a wooden Damaru drum.
The outer faces of the damaru are painted with figures of wrathful deities.
H. 14.8 cm-13.5 cm-8.8 cm
(Small flaws in the subject, tsatsa chips, wear...
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