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INDIA, GUJARAT OR HIMACHAL PRADESH, CIRCA 12TH CENTURY
Details
A brass figure of Lakshmi Narayana
India, Gujarat or Himachal Pradesh, circa 12th century
Vishnu seated on the shoulders of Garuda on a lotus base over a stepped plinth, holding a mace, chakra, and conch in his hands and wearing a tall headdress, Lakshmi seated on his knee dressed in a striated dhoti and adorned with a torque, flanked by a male and female attendant holding flywhisks, backed by a post-and-lintel aureole with a lotus nimbus topped by a conical finial
11 1/8 in. (28.3 cm.) high
India, Gujarat or Himachal Pradesh, circa 12th century
Vishnu seated on the shoulders of Garuda on a lotus base over a stepped plinth, holding a mace, chakra, and conch in his hands and wearing a tall headdress, Lakshmi seated on his knee dressed in a striated dhoti and adorned with a torque, flanked by a male and female attendant holding flywhisks, backed by a post-and-lintel aureole with a lotus nimbus topped by a conical finial
11 1/8 in. (28.3 cm.) high
Provenance
Doris Wiener Gallery, New York, 1960s