SOUTH INDIA, 16TH CENTURY

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A Bronze figure of Ganesha
South India, 16th century
Expressively cast standing in a slight tribhanga wearing a short dhoti with a flaring sash, a 'sacred thread' across his chest, his four hands holding a noose, a goad, his broken tusk and a ladoo, his elephant head with its long trunk unfurling towards the lower right hand, surmounted by a conical crown
9½ in. (24 cm.) high

Provenance

Acquired in circa 1985

Lot Essay

Ganesh wears a floral belt to support his massive rotund belly; the life-like proportions of the present example are rare in Chola depictions of this deity. For examples with similar attributes at the Norton Simon Museum, see P. Pal, Art from the Indian Subcontinent, 2003, cat. no. 169f, p. 228.

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