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SOUTH INDIA, TAMILNADU, CHOLA PERIOD, 13TH CENTURY
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A bronze figure of saint Candeshvara
South India, Tamilnadu, Chola period, 13th Century
Standing on an oval plinth with his hands joined in anjali mudra and cradling an ax, wearing a short dhoti finely incised with bands of dentil ornaments and tied with a sash at the waist, with an elaborate multi-stranded necklace and pendent rosettes extending down his shoulders, his face in a benevolent expression with pronounced aquiline nose, his hair arranged in an elaborate cylindrical topknot centered by a flaming jewel, the base later added
19 in. (48.3 cm.) high
South India, Tamilnadu, Chola period, 13th Century
Standing on an oval plinth with his hands joined in anjali mudra and cradling an ax, wearing a short dhoti finely incised with bands of dentil ornaments and tied with a sash at the waist, with an elaborate multi-stranded necklace and pendent rosettes extending down his shoulders, his face in a benevolent expression with pronounced aquiline nose, his hair arranged in an elaborate cylindrical topknot centered by a flaming jewel, the base later added
19 in. (48.3 cm.) high