拍品 51
51
A Bronze Figure of Baby Krishna
VARIOUS PROPERTIES
A Bronze Figure of Baby Krishna

SOUTH INDIA, VIJAYANAGAR PERIOD, CIRCA 15TH CENTURY

细节
A Bronze Figure of Baby Krishna
South India, Vijayanagar period, circa 15th Century
The crawling figure adorned with necklace, earrings and 'sacred thread' wearing a high cylindrical headdress with lotus petal frieze
4 1/16 in. (10.4 cm.) high

拍品专文

This iconographic type, with the distinctive headdress, became popular in Tamil Nadu during the Vijayanagar period; compare with another example in the Norton Simon Museum, see P. Pal, Asian Art at the Norton Simon Museum, vol. 1, cat. no. 201, p. 277.