MEDIEVAL INDIAN SCULPTURE Property formerly from the Collection of Dr. and Mrs. Freddy and Regina T. Homburger

A Red Sandstone Figure of a Nagini

INDIA, RAJASTHAN OR MADHYA PRADESH, 10TH CENTURY

细节

A Red Sandstone Figure of a Nagini
India, Rajasthan or Madhya Pradesh, 10th Century
Well-carved in sinuous tribhanga stance with one arm raised above her head and the other reaching down to a child at her side, wearing an elaborate necklace and a sash swirling down around her shoulders, her hair arranged in an elaborate coif and backed by a naga hood
26½ in. (67.3 cm.) high

来源

Charles Lipson Collection, Boston, before 1970

展览

Boston, Fogg Art Museum, April 1971, Selections from the Collection of Freddy and Regina T. Homburger, cat. no. 7.
Gainesville, University Gallery, University of Florida
On loan to the Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota

拍品专文

This Nagini, recognizable by her single snake hood above her head, would likely have accompanied a figure of Vishnu.