A buff sandstone figure of Dancing Ganesha
Property from a private Manhattan Collector
A buff sandstone figure of Dancing Ganesha

INDIA, RAJASTHAN OR MADHYA PRADESH, 11TH CENTURY

细节
A buff sandstone figure of Dancing Ganesha
India, Rajasthan or Madhya Pradesh, 11th Century
Standing on a lotus base with his right leg raised in dance, his sixteen arms radiating about him holding various attributes including the naga at top, wearing a short dhoti tied beneath his portly midsection and adorned with multiple bracelets and other jewelry, his trunk curled around the sweets held in his principal left hand, flanked by a flautist on his right and a drummer on his left, the central figure detailed on the reverse
26 in. (66.0 cm.) high
来源
Private American Collection, 1990s
Sotheby's New York, September 2005, lot 74

拍品专文

Compare with a related multi-armed figure of Ganesha in the James W. and Marilynn Alsdorf Collection, see V. Desai and D. Mason, Gods, Guardians, and Lovers, 1993, cat. no. 17, p. 168.