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PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF
TINA AND SIMON BERIRO
702
A RED SANDSTONE FIGURE OF VISHNU
INDIA, MADHYA PRADESH OR RAJASTHAN,
11TH-12TH CENTURY
28æ in. (73 cm.) high
$8,000-12,000
PROVENANCE:
Sotheby’s London, 11 June 1985, lot 302.
Property of a Private American Collection;
Christie’s New York, 30 March 2006, lot 70.
EXHIBITED:
Amarillo, Amarillo Art Center, Divine Images and
Magic Carpets: From the Asian Art Collection of Dr.
And Mrs. William T. Price, 1987, p. 80, pl. 64.

The present figure wears a diaphanous dhoti
decorated with foliate swags, a meditation string
draped across his shoulder, a floral srivatsa in
relief on his chest and a tapered headdress
decorated with scrolling foliage and curls of hair
extending down to the shoulders. The remaining
part of a floral garland around the shoulders
and the diamond-shaped srivatsa mark on the
chest suggest a probable identification of Vishnu;
compare another example in the Norton Simon
Museum, illustrated in P. Pal, Art from the Indian
Subcontinent, 2003, p. 136, cat. no. 94.