Mixed lot (2 items): India: Two ‘Bastar bronzes’ in the form of festive music-making groups with female dancers.
Mixed lot (2 items): India: Two ‘Bastar bronzes’ in the form of festive music-making groups with female dancers.
Each group features three female dancers in the middle, flanked by two drummers, standing on slightly curved plinths.
Dimensions: 14 cm x 18 cm and 13 cm x 15 cm. (ME)
Provenance: German Private Collection.
In isolated rural regions of India, especially where the non-Hindu tribes (‘Adivasi’) live, wandering founders travel from village to village and manufacture such charming sculptures, upon request, for these tribes. This is the case, for instance, in the villages of the Indian federal states of Orissa, Bihar, Maharashtra, Bengal and others. The small works of art are named after one of these tribes and are an important branch of Indian arts and crafts. The individual pieces are first of all moulded from beeswax and then produced with yellow cast-alloy (brass) in ‘waste mould’ (also known as ‘cire perdue’ casting). Hence, each ‘Bastar bronze’ is an original piece.
additional picture:
‘Bastar bronzes’: An Indian wandering founder at work in one of the tribal villages in Orissa.
Photo from ‘Cire Perdue Casting in India’ by Ruth Reeves
Expert: Prof. Erwin Melchardt
Prof. Erwin Melchardt
+43-1-515 60-465
erwin.melchardt@dorotheum.at
26.05.2015 - 15:00
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Mixed lot (2 items): India: Two ‘Bastar bronzes’ in the form of festive music-making groups with female dancers.
Each group features three female dancers in the middle, flanked by two drummers, standing on slightly curved plinths.
Dimensions: 14 cm x 18 cm and 13 cm x 15 cm. (ME)
Provenance: German Private Collection.
In isolated rural regions of India, especially where the non-Hindu tribes (‘Adivasi’) live, wandering founders travel from village to village and manufacture such charming sculptures, upon request, for these tribes. This is the case, for instance, in the villages of the Indian federal states of Orissa, Bihar, Maharashtra, Bengal and others. The small works of art are named after one of these tribes and are an important branch of Indian arts and crafts. The individual pieces are first of all moulded from beeswax and then produced with yellow cast-alloy (brass) in ‘waste mould’ (also known as ‘cire perdue’ casting). Hence, each ‘Bastar bronze’ is an original piece.
additional picture:
‘Bastar bronzes’: An Indian wandering founder at work in one of the tribal villages in Orissa.
Photo from ‘Cire Perdue Casting in India’ by Ruth Reeves
Expert: Prof. Erwin Melchardt
Prof. Erwin Melchardt
+43-1-515 60-465
erwin.melchardt@dorotheum.at
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