Country House and Eastern Interiors has dated this Javanese Gilded Bronze Statue to a period before the 16th Century.
Central Java, Indonesia
circa 10-13th century
The details are incredible and her overall stance is extremely graceful, not stiff or exaggerated, demonstrating the continued influence that the art of southern india had on javanese art. Also note her most beautiful face, graced with a sensuousness and sublimity not always seen in even the best of majapahit sculpture.
The deity has been thickly covered with gold with the fine detailing around the head entirely of gold. Wrapping a metal core with gold and then working that gold was a technique used on Java during the period – see a sceptre in The Met in New York for an example.)
Gold figures from Java from this period to appear from time to time (here is an example) but rarely are they of this size and quality. Gilded examples are actually rarer.
The interior of the base is fixed with an old paper collection label which reads: ‘Fire gilt bronze tara 13thc’. The reference to fire gilding seems incorrect. The image is more likely to have been cold gilded – covered with sheet gold and gold leaf, so that the gold on the surface was thick enough to be worked. This statuette holds a lotus pod in her left hand always associated with Dewi tara as opposed to her sister dewi sri who holds a rice husk.
AT THIS PRICE IS A REAL OPPORTUNITY TO OWN A GENUINE JAVANESE WORK OF ART AT TOTALLY SENSIBLE MONEY. SEE LAST IMAGE. MINE WITH ORIGINAL GILDED FINISH.
6.3 INCHES, (16CM) HIGH. 4CM WIDE AT BASE. 4CM DEEP AT BASE. WEIGHS 387 GRAMMES.
PROVENANCE;
THE A. T. DEXTER COLLECTION. DUKE'S ASIAN ART,FRIDAY 14TH NOVEMBER,2014,LOT 470.
ACQUIRED IN THE U.S.A & NETHERLANDS IN THE 1980S.
PRICE £1995 GBP.
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Country House and Eastern Interiors has dated this Javanese Gilded Bronze Statue to a period before the 16th Century.
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MASTERPIECE MUSEUM JAVANESE GOLD GILDED STANDING DEWI TARA STATUETTE. 10TH-13TH CENTURY.
