Sale 2640
New York
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20 March 2012
Price realised
USD 7,500
Estimate
A brass figure of Radha India, Orissa, 18th/19th century Standing with straight legs on a lotus base over a beaded platform, clad in an ankle-length garment folded at the waist, the torso turned to her right and arms held out to the side, with rings around her neck, the face with gentle smile, beak nose, and wide eyes beneath arched brows, the hair drawn smoothly back, with the ears and nose pierced 24¼ in. (61.6 cm.) high
Provenance
Sotheby's, New York, 26 March 1998, lot 227 Doris Wiener Gallery, New York, 1998
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