A red sandstone column fragment with dancers
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A red sandstone column fragment with dancers

INDIA, RAJASTHAN OR MADHYA PRADESH, 12TH CENTURY

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A red sandstone column fragment with dancers
India, Rajasthan or Madhya Pradesh, 12th century
Exquisitely carved in the round with eight female dancers in animated attitudes within arched niches, some playing various instruments, each clad in short dhotis, wearing jeweled body ornaments and large earrings, some with small worshippers at their feet
21 in. (53.3 cm.) high
Provenance
Spink and Son, Ltd., London, acquired in the 1980s

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