Sale 8962
New York, Park Avenue
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17 September 1998
Price realised
USD 16,100
Estimate
A red sandstone figure of a goddess India, Uttar Pradesh, Mathura, circa 4th Century Expressively carved with a scarf draped across her shoulders, wearing a beaded necklace with pendant jewel, her gently rounded face with heavy lidded eyes and flanked by long pendulous earlobes, the stone with white mottling and weathering 41 in. (104 cm.) high
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Compare a mottled red sandstone figure of a 'Nature Goddess' at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, with the scarf similarly draped over her arm and also with much wear, cf. P. Pal, Indian Sculpture, 1986, vol. I, cat. no. S54.
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