‘Vasudhara Mandala,’ a South Asian art fetched a record high price in the European auction market with a 14th century Nepali painting selling for 825,250 pounds at Sotheby’s in London, Indo Asian News Service (IANS) reported.
The news agency quoted a Sotheby’s statement as saying on Thursday that the amount is a world record for a work of its class.
The painting, by Jasaraja Jirila, went under the hammer on Wednesday. It was from the Stuart Cary Welch Collection of Islamic and Indian art—a repository of Indian and Islamic art collected by Welch, an American scholar and Harvard teacher, IANS said.
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