A Rare White Marble Figure of Ganesha

A Rare White Marble Figure of Ganesha
India, Gujarat or Rajasthan, 12th Century
The four-armed god of auspicious beginnings expressively carved standing in a sinuous pose with his lower right hand resting on an elephant goad, flanked by two diminutive female attendants, reaching with his curled trunk to a bowl of sweets in his lower left hand and holding a tusk and flower in his uppermost hands, draped with a garland reaching down to his ankles, his head well-modeled with a humorous expression with large ears flapped forward, the backplate carved as an architectural structure centered by a small figure of Ganesha in an enclosed niche above and two similarly enclosed figures of his consorts Siddhi (wisdom) and Buddhi (knowledge) on either side, the marble with a smooth lustrous patina and some encrustation in recessed areas
27 5/8 in. (70 cm.) high