LOT 169 A bronze sculpture of Maharajah Chandra Shamsher Janga Bahadur Rana (1863-1929), Prime Minister of Nepal 1901-29, in the robes of the Order of the Bath, by Domenico Antonio Tonelli (1865-1953) stamped D. A. Tonelli and dated 27.12.09 on left side of base
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52 cm. high, 57 cm. including marble base
A bronze sculpture of Maharajah Chandra Shamsher Janga Bahadur Rana (1863-1929), Prime Minister of Nepal 1901-29, in the robes of the Order of the Bath, by Domenico Antonio Tonelli (1865-1953) stamped D. A. Tonelli and dated 27.12.09 on left side of base
on square marble base 52 cm. high, 57 cm. including marble base
|The Rana dynasty took power in Nepal in 1846 and reduced the monarchy's power radically, ruling until its restoration in 1951. By the time of Maharajah Chandra Shamsher Rana, however, there were calls for constitutional government, even though he and his successors continued to suppress all outright opposition (he deposed his more liberal brother). He instituted some modernisation after his visit to Europe (such as abolishing both slavery and the practice of sati), when he met Edward VII and was awarded an honorary degree by the University of Oxford. Throughout his rule he cooperated with the British, for instance in the recruitment of Gurkha troops, provided aid during the Great War, and in 1923 concluded the Nepal-Britain Treaty. In 1905 he was created Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB), the robes of which he wears here.The sculptor, Tonelli, was born in Croydon, England, one of a family of plaster modellers and artists. He exhibited widely in the last decade of the 19th Century and early 20th Century, and worked under Alfred Gilbert.
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