33 - NEPALESE GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF PADMAPANI LOKESHVARA

NEPALESE GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF PADMAPANI LOKESHVARA 尼泊爾 銅鎏金蓮花手菩薩立像the ‘Lotus Bearer’ bodhisattva cast standing in slight tribhanga, right hand lowered in the varada mudra and the left positioned to hold the stem of the flower that blossoms at his shoulder, wearing a dhoti drapes naturally above feet, face serene flanked by large earrings below ribbons to fasten the elaborate crown 8.5cm high; 415.8g Formerly in a private English collection前英格蘭私人收藏 Compare to a hardstone-inlaid gilt copper figure of Padmapani, Nepal, 13th / 14th century, previously in the Zimmerman Family Collection sold at Sotheby's New York, 24 March 2026, lot 810. See another larger example, dated to ca. 1400, is in the Walters Art Museum, accession no. 54.3098.