Asian Art
Royal Female Donor
Permanent ExhibitionSculptureMetalwork
Details
- Author / creator
- Nepal
- Object type
- Sculpture
- Date or period
- c. 1500
- Dimensions summary
- Overall: 15.4 cm
- Maker or workshop
- Nepal
- Period / style
- Renaissance
- Place of origin
- Nepal
- Acquisition method
- Donation
- Credit line
- Gift of Sir Frederick Ashcombe, 1978
- Image rights
- Public domain (CC0)
About this object
Carrying a lamp in one hand, this female figure draped in finery was probably included as the donor of a sculptural group. She wears a complex headdress consisting of a network of beads and plaques joined together, ending in a bell at her forehead and crowning a long cloth that reaches to her waist. Her position on a lotus flower may indicate the transcendent state she attained as a result of the karmic merit of her donation.
Materials and technique
Bronze
