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featured item 8th Century Bronze Srivijaya Figure of Maitreya
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15th Century Tibetan Image of Guru Padma Sambhava

Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Indian Subcontinent: Himalayas: Pre 1492   item# 834895 (stock#1087)

15th Century Tibetan Image of Guru Padma Sambhava
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0044 (0)795 422 8735



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Details: A mysterious and powerful example of the great adept Padma Sambhava from 15th century Tibet, cast in brassy copper alloy. The Guru holds a tool of power the vajra scepter in his right hand, raised in the threatening gesture. In his left he holds the skull bowl symbolizing the realization of absolute voidness, in which there is a vase containing the elixir of immortality, symbolizing his being a manifestation of Amitabha and Amitayus (infinite life and light). He wears a form of adept’s ...click for details


11th Century Bronze Pala Image of White Tara

Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Indian Subcontinent: India: Pre 1492   item# 832476 (stock#1086)

11th Century Bronze Pala Image of White Tara
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Details: A beautiful and alluring example of an 11th century Pala White Tara probably from Kurkihar or Nalanda in Bihar. The voluptuous proportions of Tara's fully revealed figure reflect the full perfect body of youth and vitality. Her heavy regal ornaments stand out against her smooth, languorous form. Tara’s head supports rich locks of hair and the heavy crown of a Bodhisattva once inset with precious gems above her attractive face. Her bow shaped slanted eyebrows, curved and large almond ...click for details


11th Century Western Tibetan Figure of Maitreya

Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Indian Subcontinent: Himalayas: Pre 1492   item# 821874 (stock#1078)

11th Century Western Tibetan Figure of Maitreya
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0044 (0)795 422 8735



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Details: A cute and rare example of an 11th century bronze figure of the bodhisattva Maitreya from Western Tibetan. This early Western Tibetan piece displays classic Kashmiri stylistic elements, such as the nimbus and the dhoti worn with one short leg secured with a sash hanging down between his flexed legs. However, the two different types of earrings point to an Indian tradition along with the beaded jewelry and is a highly unusual feature in the Kashmiri context. Both these elements of sty ...click for details


19th Century Delhi Ivory Image of Prince Rama

Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Indian Subcontinent: India: Pre 1900   item# 714738 (stock#1043)

19th Century Delhi Ivory Image of Prince Rama
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0044 (0)795 422 8735



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Details: A delicate and finely carved Delhi ivory of Prince Rama. Shri Rama is depicted holding a bow and arrow indicating his readiness to destroy evils. This image of Rama is a very popular one in India called the Ram Parivar or family image which shows him with his wife the beautiful Sita, brother Lakshman and his devoted general Hanuman who is sitting near Lord Rama's feet.

Rama is referred to within Hinduism ...click for details


19th Century Nepalese Tantric Diagram of the Chakras

Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Indian Subcontinent: Himalayas: Pre 1837 VR   item# 819956 (stock#1075)

19th Century Nepalese Tantric Diagram of the Chakras
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0044 (0)795 422 8735



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Details: A very rare and pleasing example of a Tantric diagram of the Chakras in the subtle body from Nepal. Tantra, by its very nature is hard to define, but simply put is any of several esoteric traditions rooted in the Indian religions of Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism and Bön. In the words of a respected practicing Tibetan Tantric Lama the Tantric idea is such: “...each one of us is a union of all universal energy. Everything that we need in order to be complete is within us right at this very ...click for details


2nd to 3rd Century Gandhara Stone Head of a Bodhisattva

Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Indian Subcontinent: India: Pre AD 1000   item# 512258 (stock#1003)

2nd to 3rd Century Gandhara Stone Head of a Bodhisattva
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0044 (0)795 422 8735



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Details: An excellent example of a Gandhara sandstone head of a Bodhisattva, possibly Maitreya. His face carved with a serene expression, urna, heavy lidded eyes and a smiling mouth. He is wearing an elaborate headdress with floral rosettes woven in between his many beautifully carved curls.

Age: 2nd to 3rd Century

Height: 12 cm (Base not i ...click for details


16th Century Nepalese Gilt Seated Green Tara

Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Indian Subcontinent: Himalayas: Pre 1700   item# 810504 (stock#1071)

16th Century Nepalese Gilt Seated Green Tara
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0044 (0)795 422 8735



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Details: An elegant and sensuous 16th century example of a seated Green Tara from Nepal. The goddess of compassion is seated in lalitasana with her right foot gracefully resting on a lotus blossom emanating from her double tiered lotus throne. She is wearing a clinging diaphanous dhoti, revealing the ample proportions of her alluringly voluptuous body with its swelling planes and rounded curves which add to the image’s sense of movement and beauty. Tara’s hands are held delicately in varadha and ...click for details


19th Century Rajasthani Picchvai of Sri Nathji

Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Indian Subcontinent: India: Pre 1837 VR   item# 819681 (stock#1074)

19th Century Rajasthani Picchvai of Sri Nathji
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0044 (0)795 422 8735



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Details: A decorative and very pretty example of a Picchvai of Krishna as Sri Nathji from Rajasthan, India. Sri Nathji is wearing some ornate beaded necklaces and a lotus garland over his grey and green Chakdarwagha. Below the Sanskrit text, upon his head is a large peacock feather headdress and he is holding the lakut (cow herder's stick) and a lotus in his right hand. The image is backed by a patterned grey background, with the golden Pandan box, betel leaves and a covered pitcher of h ...click for details


11th Century Central Indian Sandstone Torso of Vamana

Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Indian Subcontinent: India: Pre AD 1000   item# 824564 (stock#1080)

11th Century Central Indian Sandstone Torso of Vamana
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0044 (0)795 422 8735



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Details: A charming sandstone example of an 11th century torso of the Brahmin dwarf Vamana probably from Madhya Pradesh. He is adorned with multiple necklaces covering his ample chest where a srivatsa is carved in relief between his shapely pectoral muscles. His sacred Brahmin thread rests across his beautifully defined pot belly, which is hanging over his diaphanous dhoti decorated with a classically beaded apron.

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16th Century Gilt Tibetan Crowned Buddha Akshobya

Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Indian Subcontinent: Himalayas: Pre 1700   item# 822485 (stock#1079)

16th Century Gilt Tibetan Crowned Buddha Akshobya
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0044 (0)795 422 8735



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Details: A broad and powerful example of a 16th century Dhyani Buddha Akshobya. The cosmic Buddha is seated in his customary depiction with his hands in bhumishparsha mudra, wearing a florally decorated close fitting robe across his broad, powerful and shapely frame, upright in vajraparyankasana on a fine double lotus pedestal supporting a vajra. As a cosmic rather than historical Buddha he is here depicted with the crown of a Bodhisattva. ...click for details

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