PRESENTING a Stunning piece of Indian Antiquity from the 17th Century, specifically, a 17C Set of 8 Paintings from a Yantra.
Hastakara Yantra …. from Western India.
This piece has impeccable Provenance !
It was procured by a Private Dallas Collector at Christie’s New York Auction on 21st March 2007. Sale Range 1812, Good deal No. 393.
Christie’s work a two times yearly auction of Southeast Asian Artwork & Antiquities in New York in the months of March and September.
The Good deal was explained as: “Property of the Estate of Blanche Manso.
Eight paintings from a yantra.
Western India, 17th Century.
Just about every aspect drawn with a chariot shape divided into blocks of textual content, numbered and labeled in the margins, decorated with shiny pink, yellow and eco-friendly on handmade paper.
4.25 x 8.25 in (10.8 x 20.9 cm.) every (8).
Provenance: From the Assortment of Blanche Manso”
It carried an Auction estimate of USD 1,000 to USD 1,500 and marketed for USD 960 (not which includes consumers high quality).
Letting for inflation alone this would be around $1,500 in today’s value.
The original Christie’s Large amount No. Label is continue to connected, as is the catalog label on the back.
It has considerably increased in benefit in excess of the years as a Uncommon piece from a prestigious Selection and a Rare piece of Asian antiquity.
Yantra (यन्त्र) (Sanskrit) (literally “machine, contraption” is a mystical diagram, primarily from the Tantric traditions of the Indian religions. They are applied for the worship of deities in temples or at home as an support in meditation utilized for the positive aspects given by their intended occult powers based on Hindu astrology and tantric texts. They are also made use of for adornment of temple flooring, because of largely to their aesthetic and symmetric attributes. Distinct yantras are traditionally associated with certain deities.
Representations of the yantra in India have been considered to date again to 11,000-10,000 a long time BP. The Baghor stone, uncovered in an higher-paleolithic context in the Son River valley, is thought of the earliest example by G.R. Sharma, who was associated in the excavation of the stone (it was dated to 25,000 – 20,000 B.P.). The triangular-shaped stone, which incorporates triangular engravings on a single side, was observed daubed in ochre, in what was deemed a site relevant to worship. Worship of goddesses in that location was observed to be practiced in a identical fashion to the current working day. Kenoyer, who was also concerned in the excavation, thought of it to be related with Shakti.
In Rigvedic Sanskrit, it intended an instrument for restraining or fastening, a prop, aid or barrier, etymologically from the root yam “to sustain, assistance” and the -tra suffix expressing instruments. The literal that means is even now evident in the healthcare terminology of Sushruta, the place the time period refers to blunt surgical instruments these as tweezers or a vice. The meaning of “mystical or occult diagram” occurs in the medieval period (Kathasaritsagara, Pancharatra).
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17C SE Asian Indian Set of 8 Paintings from a Yantra.
Provenance: See Higher than.
Affliction: Quite Great Initial issue. They have been saved in an acid no cost bag.
Proportions: 4.25 inches x 8.25 inches – Every