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INDIAN PAINTINGS FROM THE COLLECTION OF THE LATE PROF. MARJORIE JACOBS (1915-2013)Marjorie Jacobs was Professor of History at Sydney University from 1969 – 1980. Her main area of scholarship was post-colonial history. This lead her to a life-long passion for India. One of her major interests was Indian miniature paintings, a subject on which she lectured frequently. She travelled regularly to India and England where she purchased the pieces which became her collection.

AN ICON OF LORD VISHNU

MYSORE, SOUTH INDIA, 19TH CENTURY

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AN ICON OF LORD VISHNU
MYSORE, SOUTH INDIA, 19TH CENTURY
Opaque pigments, gold leaf and sukka (limestone paste) on wood, the light-skinned god standing on a lotiform base, beneath a lobed arched altar, holding a mace, flanked with priests, high candlesticks at either side
15 x 12in. (38 x 30.5cm.)

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