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A BRONZE FIGURE OF AN ASCETIC FORM OF SHIVA

SOUTH INDIA, KERALA, 14TH-15TH CENTURY

    Price Realised USD 3,000
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    A BRONZE FIGURE OF AN ASCETIC FORM OF SHIVA

    SOUTH INDIA, KERALA, 14TH-15TH CENTURY

    Price Realised USD 3,000
    Price Realised USD 3,000
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    Seated with legs crossed on a waisted lotus base, his left arm resting pendent over his knee and his right hand raised with finger joined to thumb, clad in a dhoti and adorned with a sacred thread, the form backed by a separately-cast openwork aureole with naga hoods and scrolling foliage
    61⁄4 in. (15.9 cm.) high, inlcuding aureole
    Provenance
    Kayess Arts, Inc., New York, 3 November 1978.
    The James and Marilynn Alsdorf Collection, Chicago.
    Literature
    P. Pal, A Collecting Odyssey, Chicago, 1997, pp. 223 and 339, cat. no. 296.
    Exhibited
    On loan to Art Institute of Chicago, 1996-2010 (132.1996).
    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. 296.
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