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INDIA, GURJARAT OR HIMACHAL PRADESH, CIRCA 11TH CENTURY
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A brass altar of Lakshmi Narayana
India, Gurjarat or Himachal Pradesh, circa 11th century
With Vishnu seated on the shoulders of Garuda over a lotus base on a footed plinth, holding the club, lotus, chakra and conch in his four hands, his hair piled into a tall jatamukuta secured with a diadem, Lakshmi seated on his lap with her arm around his neck, both wearing striped dhotis incised with a stippled pattern, flanked by Shankhapurusha and Chakrapurusha and backed by an openwork aureole with a large lotus blossom nimbus and topped with a finial
10 1/8 in. (25.7 cm.) high
India, Gurjarat or Himachal Pradesh, circa 11th century
With Vishnu seated on the shoulders of Garuda over a lotus base on a footed plinth, holding the club, lotus, chakra and conch in his four hands, his hair piled into a tall jatamukuta secured with a diadem, Lakshmi seated on his lap with her arm around his neck, both wearing striped dhotis incised with a stippled pattern, flanked by Shankhapurusha and Chakrapurusha and backed by an openwork aureole with a large lotus blossom nimbus and topped with a finial
10 1/8 in. (25.7 cm.) high
Provenance
Doris Wiener Gallery, New York, 1960s