A BRONZE FIGURE OF GANEA, seated with the soles of his feet touching each other on a cushion, on a shaped rectangular base moulded with the rat, his hands holding broken-tusk, akshamala, ankua and bowl with sweets, wearing dhoti, snake-upavita, body-ornaments, his trunk reaching for the bowl, a partly flaming aureole behind and a chattra above, dark-green patina, possibly Java, Central Javanese style, 9th/10th Century

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A BRONZE FIGURE OF GANEA, seated with the soles of his feet touching each other on a cushion, on a shaped rectangular base moulded with the rat, his hands holding broken-tusk, akshamala, ankua and bowl with sweets, wearing dhoti, snake-upavita, body-ornaments, his trunk reaching for the bowl, a partly flaming aureole behind and a chattra above, dark-green patina, possibly Java, Central Javanese style, 9th/10th Century
9 cm high (backside of aureole with casting fault)

Provenance

Prof. Samuel Eilenberg

Lot Essay

The throne and aureole display strong influences of medieval Indian tradition. But the configuration of the god itself followed the existant standard local formula, both in style and in iconography.

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