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A STONE FIGURE OF UMAMAHESHVARA

NORTHEASTERN INDIA, PALA PERIOD, 11TH/12TH CENTURY
9 in. (23 cm.) high
$5,000-7,000

PROVENANCE

Louis Kaufman Collection, Los Angeles, before 1994.
Acquired by the current owner from a public sale, California,
1 September 2016.
印度 東北部 帕拉時期 十一/十二世紀 黑石烏瑪與大自在天像

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A WHITE MARBLE FRIEZE OF PADMAVATI FLANKED BY
ELEPHANTS AND LIONS

INDIA, RAJASTHAN OR GUJARAT, 12TH CENTURY
17º in. (44 cm.) wide
$18,000-25,000

PROVENANCE

with Trocadéro, Kitty Higgins Far Eastern Art, Inc., Washington DC.
Acquired by the current owner from the above on 8 September 1988.
印度 拉賈斯坦邦或古吉拉特邦 十二世紀 白色大理石柏瑪瓦提與象獅雕帶
This beautiful marble relief depicts the Jain yakshi or attendant goddess
235 Padmavati fanked by elephants, lions and two deer kneeling at front.
Additional animals - possibly parrots and monkeys - are perched inside
the deeply carved niches Padmavati is the protective goddess of Lord
Parshvanatha and is especially popular in the southwestern Indian region of
Karnataka. Unlike Jinas, who having attained liberation have left the worldly
realm, yakshis remain in the earthly domain in service to their devotees.

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