Lot 124A
Central Asia, India, Jain, ca. 11th to 12th century CE. A fine effigy sculpture, hand-carved from dark-red sandstone, depicting a nude male figure standing atop an integral rectangular plinth. The depicted figure is known as a "tirthankara" (also called a "jina"), an enlightened lord of the Jain region who had conquered the cycle of death and rebirth under his own volition. Tirthankaras are also highly revered because they used their reincarnation as a type of spiritual lesson plan from which others could learn. The figure presents with a rigid posture and has delineated legs, rigid arms, slender shoulders, and a broad chest with a raised diamond centered on the sternum. Almond-shaped eyes with heavy lids, a narrow nose, thin lips, and elongated ears comprise his serene countenance, with a nodule-laden coiffure and a conical ushnisha above, all set beneath a tiered ornamental dome. An elegant spiritual figurative effigy from ancient India! Size: 3.75" W x 12.3" H (9.5 cm x 31.2 cm); 12.625" H (32.1 cm) on included custom stand.
A stylistically-similar example depicting a seated Jina hammered for $5,250 at Christie's, New York "Indian and Southeast Asian Art" auction (sale 2425, March 22, 2011, lot 446): https://www.christies.com/lotfinder/sculptures-statues-figures/a-red-sandstone-relief-with-a-jina-5416795-details.aspx?from=searchresults&intObjectID=5416795&sid=19834441-a319-4ff8-aa78-44aa228caa07
Provenance: ex-Mark Walberg Fine Antiques, Northumberland, Pennsylvania, USA; ex-private Chaffee collection, San Diego, California, USA; ex-John J. Snyder collection, Los Angeles, California, USA; ex-Ian Arundel collection, The Old Curiosity Shop, Santa Monica, California, USA, acquired in the 1950s
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- Condition: Losses to areas of arms, plinth, tiered dome, and corners as shown. Minor nicks to limbs, body, head, and peripheries, with light softening to some finer details, and light encrustations. Light earthen deposits and great traces of detailing throughout.
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