A large gilt-bronze figure of Shakyamuni Buddha, Nepal, Khasa Malla kingdom, 14th century

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PROPERTY FROM AN ITALIAN PRIVATE COLLECTION Height 32 cm, 12⅝ in. The Khasa Mallas were influential in western Nepal and western Tibet from the twelfth to the middle of the fourteenth century and commissioned Buddhist sculpture in a locally developed style, as documented by Ian Alsop in his seminal treatise, ‘Metal Sculpture of the Khasa Mallas’, in Jane Casey Singer & Philip Denwood, Tibetan Art: Towards a Definition of Style, London, 1997, pp 68-79. Alsop observed diverse sculptural influences in bronzes from the region, including eastern Indian Pala period (8th-12th century) traditions and Newar art of the Kathmandu Valley. The predominant influence in this sculpture of Shakyamuni Buddha is evident in the sensuous modelling associated with Newar artists, and their preferred medium of gilded copper. As typical of Khasa Malla bronze sculptures, the reverse of the base is plain and painted with red pigment. A smaller Khasa Malla gilt-copper figure, depicting the Medicine Buddha Bhaisajyaguru was sold in these rooms, 23rd June 2016, lot 137.

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