SOUTH INDIA, TAMIL NADU, VIJAYANAGARA PERIOD, CIRCA 1500

A classic example of late Vijayanagara period sculpture, compare the broad facial features, the necklaces with heavy lozenges, the flame style and motif of the accoutrements, the detailed girdle and the striped dhoti with another sixteenth-century bronze figure of Vishnu, illustrated by R. Kannan in Manual on the Bronzes in the Government Museum, Chennai, Chennai, 2003, p 225-7, SI. no. 69.