A bronze roundel with a dancer
A bronze roundel with a dancer

INDIA, UTTAR PRADESH, 5TH CENTURY

细节
A bronze roundel with a dancer
India, Uttar Pradesh, 5th century
Depicting a figure in a dynamic pose wearing a short dhoti and flying sash, with remains of a knob on the verso
2 in. (5.1 cm.) diameter
来源
The James and Marilynn Alsdorf Collection, Chicago, acquired before 1996
Acquired from Mathias Komor, New York
出版
Pratapaditya Pal, A Collecting Odyssey: Indian, Himalayan and Southeast Asian Art from the James and Marilynn Alsdorf Collection, 1997, p. 240 and 345, cat. no. 318
Pratapaditya Pal, The Ideal Image, 1978, p. 63, cat. no. 10.
展览
On loan to Art Institute of Chicago since 1996

拍品专文

Pal notes that this is one of the earliest known depictions of a dancing figure found on the subcontinent.