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Lot 568 Dα

A precious gilt silver amulet with coloured stones and necklace from Kathmandu Valley, Nepal

Auction 1136 - overview Cologne
08.06.2019, 11:30 - India/South East Asia, Tibet/Nepal
Estimate: 6.000 € - 8.000 €
Result: 7.440 € (incl. premium)

A precious gilt silver amulet with coloured stones and necklace from Kathmandu Valley, Nepal

The square gilt silver cover fronted with the embossed Ganesha and consort in an oval medallion, surrounded by chiseled scrolls inset with numerous seed pearls and various foiled coloured stones, as well as the tube for the necklace at top. The white metal base of the box decorated with the Nine Celestial Bodies (navagraha) of the Hindu cosmologie, each inset with a foiled coloured stone, around a large faceted rock crystal. The necklace of black cord with threaded rock crystal beads and two metal elements in the shape of the Nine Celestial Bodies.
Amulet: Height 11 cm; width 10 cm; depth 1.2 cm

尼泊爾加德滿都 銀鎏金嵌寶石項鍊
來源:比利時私人收藏
一類例可較,錄於John Clarke著,Jewellery of Tibet and the Himalayas,倫敦2004年,頁53, 圖版35

Provenance

Private collection, Belgium, acquired 2003 from Histoire d´A, Brussels

Literature

Compare a similar amulet in: John Clarke, Jewellery of Tibet and the Himalayas, London 2004, p. 53, no. 35