Our catalogue > Indian & Himalayan Bronzes & Related Statues
Indian Hindu & Jain bronzes, along with bronzes of Himalayan Buddhist deities, and some related items, are shown here. Each has been selected for its aesthetic appeal, sound provenance, and obvious age & patina.
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Each piece has been sourced from within the UK, often from old, colonial-era collections.
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Enquiry about object: 9043
Rare, Nepalese Cast Bronze Yab-Yum Group for Temple Niche
Kathmandu Valley, Nepal Late Malla Dynasty, 17th century
height: 13.7cm, width: 11.7cm, depth: approximately 3.6cm, weight: 557g
Provenance
from the private collection of a retired academic, London
Enquiry about object: 8947
Unusual Pair of Mongolian Beaten Brass Images of Budai
Mongolia circa 18th century
height: approximately 19cm, width: 15.2cm, depth: 10.1cm, combined weight: 2,389g
Provenance
UK art market
Enquiry about object: 9051
Northern Indian Brass Garuda Incense Holder
Himachal Pradesh, Northern India 17th-18th century
height: 12cm, width: 7.4cm, weight: 239g
Provenance
private collection, London, UK
Enquiry about object: 9052
Indian Cast Image of the Standing Annapurna inlaid with Gold & Red Stones
Deccan, Maharashtra or perhaps Orissa. India 17th-18th century
height: 12.3cm, width: 5.2cm, depth: 5.2cm, weight: 301g
Provenance
UK art market
Enquiry about object: 9053
Indian Cast Image of the Seated Annapurna inlaid with Red Stones
Deccan, India 18th century
height: 8.1cm, width: 6.3cm, depth: 4.5cm, weight: 251g
Provenance
UK art market
Enquiry about object: 9082
Tibetan Wood & Polychrome Phurba
North-Eastern Tibet 19th century
length: 30.8cm, width: approximately 6.8cm, weight: 217g
Provenance
UK art market
Enquiry about object: 9084
Nepali Inscribed, Gilded Image of Vasudhara
Kathmandu Valley, Nepal dated Samvat 1042 (AD 1921)
height: 23.7cm, width: 15.6cm, depth: 6.1cm, weight: 1,202g
Provenance
UK art market
Enquiry about object: 8965
Rare, Inscribed, Shaivite 22-Spout Water Vessel or Lota
South India 18th-19th century
height: approximately 27.5cm, width: approximately 33cm, weight: 2,503g
Provenance
private collection, England.
Enquiry about object: 9073
Indian Bone Female Attendant Deity
Karnataka, India 17th century
height (including stand): 15.3cm, width: 4cm, weight: 139g
Provenance
art market/private collection, UK
Enquiry about object: 8845
Indian Brass Shaivite Temple Offering Box
Rajasthan, India 19th century
length: approximately 24.5cm, width: approximately 24cm, depth: 15.5cm, weight: 5,003g
Provenance
private collection, UK
Enquiry about object: 8977
Rare Nepalese Tantric Gilded Bronze of Samvara & his Consort Vajravilasini
Nepal 13th-14th century
height: 18.6cm, width: 14.7cm, depth: 7.4cm, weight: 1,003g
Provenance
private collection, UK
Enquiry about object: 8920
Indian Cast Brass Finials to Decorate the Horns of a Bullock
Central or Southern India 18th-19th century
height: 10.6cm, width: 3.7cm, combined weight: 314g
Provenance
UK art market; private UK collection.
Enquiry about object: 8918
Indian Ganga-Jumna Image of Dancing Krishna
Tanjore region, Tamil Nadu, South India 17th-18th century
height: 11.3cm, weight: 422g
Provenance
UK art market; private UK collection.
Enquiry about object: 8927
Indian Jain Bronze Inscribed Shrine
Western India 12th-13th century
height: 10.5cm, width: 8.4cm, depth: 3.2cm, weight: 234g
Provenance
UK art market
Enquiry about object: 8888
Superb Tibetan Silver Image of Tsong Khapa
Tibet 18th century
height: 13.7cm, width: 9.8cm, depth: 7cm, weight: 606g
Provenance
private collection, England.
Enquiry about object: 8822
Cast Brass Ten-Armed Durga slaying Mahishasura
Orissa, India 15th century
height: 11.8cm, width: 7.7cm, depth: approximately 7cm, weight: 519g
Provenance
private collection, UK
Enquiry about object: 8827
Indian Bronze, possibly Saint Andal or Rukhmini
India circa 15th century
height: 8.2cm, width: 3.7cm, depth: 2.7cm, weight: 105g
Provenance
private collection, UK.
Enquiry about object: 8661
Large South Indian Temple Priest’s Anklet (Kal Chilampu)
Irinjalakuda, Kerala, South India 18th-19th century
width: approximately 24cm, length: 22.8cm, depth: 11.2cm, weight: 3,579g
Provenance
UK art market
Enquiry about object: 8641
Indian Miniature Shaivaite Shrine
India, probably Maharashtra 19th century
width: 7.2cm, depth: 7.6cm, height: 4.7cm, weight: 303g
Provenance
UK art market
Enquiry about object: 8806
Srivijaya Bronze Seated Avalokiteshvara
Srivijaya kingdom - Sumatra, Indonesia & Malay Peninsula, incl. southern Thailand 7th-8th century
height: 18.8cm, width: 8.9cm, depth: 7.6cm, weight: 1,203g
Provenance
private collection, UK
Enquiry about object: 8660
Pair of Large South Indian Temple Priest’s Rattle Anklets (Kal Chilampu)
Irinjalakuda, Kerala, South India 18th-19th century
length: 17.3cm, width: 17.2cm, combined weight: 1,222g
Provenance
UK art market
Enquiry about object: 8575
Virabhadra Bronze Devotional Plaque
Karnataka, India 18th century
height: 27cm, width: 18.2cm, weight: 1,159g
Provenance
UK art market
Enquiry about object: 8640
Srivijaya Bronze Standing Maitreya
Srivijaya Kingdom, South Sumatra, Indonesia circa 7th-8th century
height (including stand): 32.5cm, width: 8.7cm, weight (including stand): 2,682g
Provenance
private collection, London, UK.
Enquiry about object: 8673
Fine Nepalese Pair of Bronze Snow Lions
Kathmandu Valley, Nepal 18th century
height: approximately 22cm, length: approximately 23cm, width: approximately 10cm, combined weight: 5,404g
Provenance
private collection, UK.
Enquiry about object: 8716
Tibetan or Nepalese Gilded Repoussed Copper Vajra or Dorje Plaque
Tibet or Nepal 18th-19th century
length: 39cm, width: 16cm, weight: 496g
Provenance
UK art market
Enquiry about object: 8715
Rare Mongolian Repoussed Copper Plaque of a Lokapala
Mongolia 18th century
height: 33cm, width: 28.5cm, weight: 901g
Provenance
private collection, UK
Enquiry about object: 8745
Indian Khandoba’s or Aiyanar’s Horse in Silver
South India 17th-18th century
height: 13.2cm, length: 10.8cm, width: 4cm, weight: 148g
Provenance
UK art market
Enquiry about object: 8689
Indian White Marble Votive Offering Shaped as a Foot
India 19th century
height: 18.4cm, length: 19.9cm, width: 8.7cm, weight: 3,608g
Provenance
UK art market
Enquiry about object: 8629
Jain Brass Shrine inlaid with Silver
Jain community, Western India dated Samvat 1416 (1419 AD)
height: 17.1cm, width: 11cm, depth: 7.7cm, weight: 750g
Provenance
UK art market
Enquiry about object: 7295
Khmer Bronze Votive Mold of Hevajra
Khmer, Cambodia Bayon period, circa 12th century
length: 18.3cm, width: 9.8cm, weight: 425g
Provenance
Estate Collection of Tom White MBE, who served as a British diplomat in Southeast Asia in the 1960s and 1970s.
Enquiry about object: 8512
Nepali Inscribed Ritual Bronze Skull Cup Kapala
Nepal 16th-17th century
length: 21cm, width: 16.3cm, weight: 789g
Provenance
Art market, Belgium
Enquiry about object: 7325
Rare, Nepalese Inscribed & Gilded Copper Buddha’s Footprints Buddhapada Portable Mandala Plaque
Nepal 17th-18th century
diameter: approximately 27cm, weight: 669g
Provenance
UK art market
Enquiry about object: 8446
Indian Cast & Pierced Bronze Gajalakshmi Lamp
Tamil Nadu, South India late 18th century
height: 17.5cm, depth: 13.5cm, weight: 1,072g
Provenance
UK art market
Enquiry about object: 8564
Early Srivijaya Bronze Standing Buddha with Gupta Influence
Srivijaya kingdom, Sumatra, Indonesia early Srivijaya period, 7th-8th century
height (including stand): 25cm, width: 8cm, depth: 7cm, weight (including stand): 971g
Provenance
private collection, UK.
Enquiry about object: 8431
Himalayan-Indian Shiva Shrine Plaque (Mohra)
Eastern Himachal Pradesh, Himalayan India circa 18th century
height: 25.6cm, width: 13.8cm, weight: 1,148g
Provenance
Private collection, London, UK
Enquiry about object: 8484
Outstanding & Rare Javanese Gold, Gilded & Bronze Standing Shiva Mahadeva
Central Java, Indonesia circa 9th century
height: 16.8cm, width: 5.2cm, depth: 5.4cm, weight: 380g
Provenance
from the estate of the private collector John Bartlett, England, with an old collection label attached indicating that the piece entered the collection in 1967.
Enquiry about object: 7289
South Indian Bronze Image of the Infant Krishna Dancing
Tamil Nadu, South India 17th-18th century
height: 8.1cm, width: 5.3cm, weight: 109g
Provenance
UK art market
Enquiry about object: 8422
Nepalese Bronze Lamp with Aristocratic Patron Devotee Figure (Shali Dalus)
Kathmandu Valley, Nepal 19th century
height: 17cm, width: 17.4cm, depth: 9.5cm, weight: 1,296g
Provenance
UK art market
Enquiry about object: 7279
Tibetan Bronze Makara
Tibet circa 18th century
length: 21cm, width: approximately 10.4cm, weight: 284g
Provenance
UK art market
Enquiry about object: 8486
Javanese Bronze Image of Seated Bodhisattva Padmapani
Central Java, Indonesia 9th-10th century
height: 16.7cm, width: 10.4cm, depth: 8.9cm, weight: 1,996g
Provenance
formerly in the collections of Professor Samuel Eilenberg (1980s), Jerry Mitchell & John Bartlett, UK.
Enquiry about object: 7281
South Indian Bronze Virabhadra Plaque
South India 17th-18th century
height: 21.2cm, width: 14.1cm, weight: 605g
Provenance
UK art market
Enquiry about object: 5901
Jain Five-Jina Bronze
Jain Community, India circa 15th century
height with stand: 14.2cm, height without stand: 12.1cm, width: 6.6cm, depth: 2.3cm, weight without stand: 260g
Provenance
UK art market
Enquiry about object: 5364
Early Javanese Unusually Large Cast Bronze Buddha
Java or Sumatra, Indonesia, but most probably imported from northern India Classical Period, 8th century
height (without stand): 21.9cm, width: 17.1cm, depth: 11.8cm, weight: 2,576g
Provenance
Private Collection, London, UK.
Enquiry about object: 6775
Pair of Large, Indian, Princely, Parcel-Gilded & Enamelled Garuda Figures
Rajasthan, India circa 1800
heights (without stands): 23.8cm, width: 12.4cm, height (with stands): 32.5cm, combined weight: 2,475g
Provenance
German private collection, bought by the father of the previous owner in Germany in 1971 at the sale of a Rajasthan Maharaja's possessions
Enquiry about object: 7034
Large Repousse & Enamelled Silver Shiva Mask
Maharashtra or Karnataka, India 18th-19th century
height: 43cm, width: 19.5cm, weight: 1,009g
Provenance
private collection, UK.
Enquiry about object: 5840
Mongolian Polychrome Dancing Citipati Group
Mongolia 19th century
height: 60cm, width: 53cm
Provenance
Private collection, England.
Enquiry about object: 6250
Tibetan Gilded Copper Image Possibly of Vajra Vahari
Central Tibet circa 17th-18th century
height: 23.5cm, width: 22.8cm, weight:216g
Provenance
private collection, London
Enquiry about object: 6069
Pair of Bhuta Cow Figures (Nandigona)
Karnataka, India 19th century
lengths; 21cm, heights: 11.6cm, combined weights: 2,244g
Provenance
UK art market
Enquiry about object: 5614
Unusual Cast & Engraved Bronze Horse Head, probably of the Deity Aiyanar
South India 18th-19th century
width: 32cm, height: 24.6cm, depth: 11cm
Provenance
UK art market
Enquiry about object: 4717
Sri Lankan Standing Brass Image of the Buddhist Protector Upulvan (Vishnu)
Sri Lanka 19th century
height: 40.3cm
Provenance
UK art market
Enquiry about object: 4833
Pair of Cast Brass Lakshmi Dipa Lamps
South India 17th-18th century
heights: 35cm & 34.5cm
Provenance
UK art market
Enquiry about object: 4249
Miniature Shaivaite Shrine
Maharashtra, India 18th-19th century
height: 9.6cm, width: 6.5cm, depth: 6.5cm
Provenance
private collection, London.
Enquiry about object: 4813
Inscribed Copper Alloy Dancing Krishna
India 19th century
height: 13.4cm
Provenance
UK art market
Enquiry about object: 7321
Indian Bronze Krishna Playing the Flute (Venugopala)
South India circa 18th century
height: 17.1cm, width: 9cm, depth: 5.2cm, weight: 910g
Provenance
UK art market