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SOUTH INDIA, TAMIL NADU, CHOLA PERIOD, 11TH CENTURY
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A GRANITE FIGURE OF VISHNU
SOUTH INDIA, TAMIL NADU, CHOLA PERIOD, 11TH CENTURY
Seated in lalitasana with the right hand raised in a welcoming gesture, the upper hands holding a chakra and a conch, clad in an ankle-length dhoti and adorned with a sacred thread and a torc, the face with full lips and almond-shaped eyes surmounted by a conical headdress
29 ¼ in. (74.3 cm.) high
SOUTH INDIA, TAMIL NADU, CHOLA PERIOD, 11TH CENTURY
Seated in lalitasana with the right hand raised in a welcoming gesture, the upper hands holding a chakra and a conch, clad in an ankle-length dhoti and adorned with a sacred thread and a torc, the face with full lips and almond-shaped eyes surmounted by a conical headdress
29 ¼ in. (74.3 cm.) high
Provenance
Spink & Son, Ltd., London, 9 June 1980.
The James and Marilynn Alsdorf Collection, Chicago.
The James and Marilynn Alsdorf Collection, Chicago.
Literature
P. Pal, A Collecting Odyssey: Indian, Himalayan, and Southeast Asian Art from the James and Marilynn Alsdorf Collection, Chicago,1997, pp. 41 and 280, cat. no. 39.
Exhibited
On loan to The Art Institute of Chicago, 1983-2010 (266.1983).
The Art Institute of Chicago, “A Collecting Odyssey: Indian, Himalayan, and Southeast Asian Art from the James and Marilynn Alsdorf Collection,” 2 August-26 October 1997, cat. no. 39.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “A Collecting Odyssey: Indian, Himalayan, and Southeast Asian Art from the James and Marilynn Alsdorf Collection,” 2 August-26 October 1997, cat. no. 39.
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