A Bronze Shrine of Parshvanatha
A Bronze Shrine of Parshvanatha

INDIA, GUJARAT OR MADHYA PRADESH, CIRCA 10TH CENTURY

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A Bronze Shrine of Parshvanatha
India, Gujarat or Madhya Pradesh, circa 10th Century
Seated on a throne supported by lions and flanked by two standing Jinas, the seven-headed naga rising to form a halo behind him topped by a canopy, the plinth with diminutive figures of female deities and a frieze of the planetary deities, the details very crisply cast
9½ in. (24 cm.) high
Provenance
J.R. Belmont Collection, Basel, before 1966
Pan-Asian Collection

Lot Essay

Compare to a triad with Parshvanatha in the National Museum, New Delhi, S.P. Gupta, ed. Masterpieces from the National Museum Collection, 1985, cat. no. 58; and another in the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts published by J. Dye III, The Arts of India: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 2001, p. 151, cat. no. 50.

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