A MONUMENTAL PALE PINK SANDSTONE STELE OF DANCING GANESHA

Lot 11
13.10.2023 19:00UTC +00:00
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£ 600 000
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Event locationUnited Kingdom, London
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Lot 11 | A MONUMENTAL PALE PINK SANDSTONE STELE OF DANCING GANESHA
Estimate value
£ 600 000 – 900 000
A MONUMENTAL PALE PINK SANDSTONE STELE OF DANCING GANESHA

INDIA, MADHYA PRADESH, 10TH-11TH CENTURY

Finely carved with Ganesha standing in a graceful dancing pose with his weight resting on his left leg and his right raised on his toes, his ten arms arrayed around his body and holding his various attributes, including the battle axe, his bowl of sweets, a radish, and his broken tusk, his face held at a slight angle with his trunk in a tight spiral and with a small crownlet upon his head, flanked by two shikharas (temple spires) and a multitude of musicians, dancers, flying garland bearers and his diminutive mount, the rat, below the base.

Height: 50 in. (127 cm.)





Provenance

Ben Heller, New York, by 1968.

Acquired from the above in 1969, and thence by descent to the present owners.
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