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A SANDSTONE STELE OF A DEITY Published
NORTHERN INDIA, CIRCA 10TH CENTURY Pratapaditya Pal, Indo-Asian Art: The John Gilmore Ford Collection,
27 5/8 x 14 1/2 in. (70 x 36.7 cm) Baltimore, 1971, no.9.
$30,000 - 50,000 Provenance
John & Berthe Ford Collection, Baltimore, by 1970
This languid attendant deity is carved in a Northern Indian style Sotheby’s, New York, 26 March 2003, lot 148
adopted by the Gurjara-Pratihara dynasty in which many Hindu and Private Collection, California
Jain temples were carved. Compare two torsos in the Norton Simon
Museum that share the same configuration of jewelry, especially the
armbands (Pal, Art from the Indian Subcontinent, New Haven, 2003,
p.169, nos.129 & 130).
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