Lot 21
Lot 21
TWO ICONOGRAPHIC MANUAL PAGES DEPICTING TANTRIC HINDU DEITIES

NEPAL, 16TH CENTURY

Price Realised USD 6,250
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TWO ICONOGRAPHIC MANUAL PAGES DEPICTING TANTRIC HINDU DEITIES

NEPAL, 16TH CENTURY

Price Realised USD 6,250
Price Realised USD 6,250
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One page depicting two forms of Siddhilakshmi, their names inscribed above, and the other page with a tantric form of a devi, Surya with his consort, and a tantric form of Sarasvati
734 x 978 in. (19.7 x 25.1 cm.) each
Provenance
Ian Alsop, Washington D.C., 21 June 1987.
The James and Marilynn Alsdorf Collection, Chicago.
Literature
P. Pal, A Collecting Odyssey, Chicago, 1997, pp. 214 and 336, cat. no. 285a and 285b.
I. Alsop, "The Alsdorf Collection: Highlights from the Himalayas," Orientations, July/August 1997, p. 52, fig. 3 (part).
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