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NORTHEASTERN INDIA, PALA PERIOD, CIRCA 12TH CENTURY
Details
A Large Black Stone Stele of Vishnu
Northeastern India, Pala Period, circa 12th Century
Well carved in openwork standing on a double-lotus throne supported by Garuda, flanked by scrolls of foliage, three devotees, a donor figure and Ganesha, the upper hands holding a wheel and staff and a lotus in his lower right, wearing a short dhoti secured with an elaborate sash and foliate collar, flanked by the two goddesses Saraswati and Lakshmi, over-arched by his avatars encircled by scrollwork on the throneback
40¼ in. (102 cm.) high
Northeastern India, Pala Period, circa 12th Century
Well carved in openwork standing on a double-lotus throne supported by Garuda, flanked by scrolls of foliage, three devotees, a donor figure and Ganesha, the upper hands holding a wheel and staff and a lotus in his lower right, wearing a short dhoti secured with an elaborate sash and foliate collar, flanked by the two goddesses Saraswati and Lakshmi, over-arched by his avatars encircled by scrollwork on the throneback
40¼ in. (102 cm.) high
Provenance
Previously sold at Sotheby's London, 15 June 1987, lot 204
Exhibited
N. Rao, Boundaries & Transformations, Masterworks of Indian and Southeast Asian Sculpture from the Collection of Dr. and Mrs. William T. Price, 1007, fig. 22