A Maharashtra copper alloy figure of Lakshmi-Narasimha. Central India. Early 19th century - image-1
A Maharashtra copper alloy figure of Lakshmi-Narasimha. Central India. Early 19th century - image-2
A Maharashtra copper alloy figure of Lakshmi-Narasimha. Central India. Early 19th century - image-3
A Maharashtra copper alloy figure of Lakshmi-Narasimha. Central India. Early 19th century - image-1A Maharashtra copper alloy figure of Lakshmi-Narasimha. Central India. Early 19th century - image-2A Maharashtra copper alloy figure of Lakshmi-Narasimha. Central India. Early 19th century - image-3

Lot 13 Dα

A Maharashtra copper alloy figure of Lakshmi-Narasimha. Central India. Early 19th century

Auction 1235 - overview Cologne
08.12.2023, 11:30 - India/Southeast Asia, Tibet/Nepal, China, Korea and Japan
Estimate: 800 € - 1.000 €
Result: 882 € (incl. premium)
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A Maharashtra copper alloy figure of Lakshmi-Narasimha. Central India. Early 19th century

Sitting in lalitasana on a rectangular stepped pedestal, the right hand in varadamudra rests on the gada, with the left supporting Lakshmi, who sits on his left leg, in the subsidiary hands chakra and shanka, only the lion's mouth and the jagged stylised mane point to the lion nature of the avatar. Prabhatorana missing.
Height 17.8 cm

Provenance

Private collection, Northwestern Germany, thence by family descent

Literature

Cornelia Mallebrein, Die anderen Götter. Volks- und Stammesbronzen aus Indien, Cologne 1993, fig. on p. 294 and p. 298