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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE ASIAN COLLECTION
A small green stone figure of Skanda
SWAT VALLEY OR KASHMIR, 6TH/7TH CENTURY
Details
A small green stone figure of Skanda
Swat Valley or Kashmir, 6th/7th century
Finely carved standing on a waisted plinth holding the spear and cockerel, wearing a short dhoti with a dagger secured at the waist, his face carved with aquiline nose and arched brows beneath long wavy hair tied in a topknot and secured with a small headdress, flanked by his peacock mount with full display of feathers forming a mandorla
5 in. (12.8 cm.) high
Swat Valley or Kashmir, 6th/7th century
Finely carved standing on a waisted plinth holding the spear and cockerel, wearing a short dhoti with a dagger secured at the waist, his face carved with aquiline nose and arched brows beneath long wavy hair tied in a topknot and secured with a small headdress, flanked by his peacock mount with full display of feathers forming a mandorla
5 in. (12.8 cm.) high
Provenance
Christie's New York, 17 October 2001, lot 9
Spink and Son, Ltd., London, 1996
Spink and Son, Ltd., London, 1996
Literature
Spink, Legacies of Ancient Civilisations: A Selection of Indian & South-East Asian Works of Art, 1996, cat. no. 12