A COPPER ALLOY FIGURE OF KUBERANORTHEASTERN INDIA, PALA PERIOD, 12TH CENTURY
Himalayan Art Resources item no.16727
8 cm (3 1/8 in.) high注脚Holding a fruit and an ingot, this figure represents the pot-bellied wealth deity Kubera. Another Pala bronze with this iconography in the British Museum depicts Kubera with Ganesha and three mother goddesses (1881,1010.2; Huntington Archive scan 20781). Another example in the Patna Museum (misidentified as Manjushri) is published in Lalit Kala Akademi, Eastern Indian Bronzes, Bombay, 1986, no.152. Stylistically, compare the lotus base's pointed petals and beaded lower rim to that of a 12th-century bronze Vajratara published in von Schroeder, Indo-Tibetan Bronzes, Hong Kong, 1981, pp.290-1, no.73G.

Provenance
Stuart Perrin, New York, 1985
Private California Collection


俱毗羅銅像
印度東北部，帕拉時期，十二世紀
喜馬拉雅藝術資源網16727號
高8釐米（3 1/8英吋）

40,000-60,000港幣

本尊小巧玲瓏的造像塑造了財富之神俱毗羅，其左手持金錠，右手持如意果，大腹便便，形態可人。大英博物館中藏有一尊刻畫俱毗羅、象鼻神與三女神的銅像（1881,1010.2；Huntington檔案掃描件20781號），其中俱毗羅的圖像與本拍品完全一致。巴特那博物館亦藏有一尊同題材作品（被誤認為文殊菩薩），參見Lalit Kala Akademi，《Eastern Indian Bronzes》，孟買，1986年，152號。造像底座的尖葉蓮瓣和連珠紋下沿與一尊十二世紀帕拉金剛度母風格相似（出版於施羅德著《Indo-Tibetan Bronzes》，香港，1981年，頁290-1，編號73G）。

來源
Stuart Perrin，紐約，1985年
加利福尼亞私人珍藏