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              A SANDSTONE FIGURE OF BRAHMA
              India, Rajasthan or Gujarat, 9th/10th Century

              Height: 33 ½ in. (85.1 cm)

              PROVENANCE
              Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul E. Manheim, donated to Los Angeles
              County Museum of Art (acc. no. M.68.65.5), 1968.
              Christie’s New York, 5 June 1986, lot 222.
              China Gallery, 1990s.

              EXHIBITED
              “Aspects of Indo-Asian Art from the Los Angeles County Museum of
              Art”, Peppers Art Gallery, University of Redlands, CA, 1972.

              LITERATURE
              R. Newman, The Stone Sculpture of India: a Study of the Materials Used
              by Indian Sculptors from ca. 2nd Century B.C. to the 16th Century,
              Cambridge, MA, 1984.

              $ 10,000-15,000

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              A SANDSTONE STELE DEPICTING THREE
              CELESTIAL DEITIES
              Western India, Rajasthan, 11th/12th Century

              Height: 25 ½ in. (65 cm)

              PROVENANCE
              Private collection of the late Mr. Will Barnet (1911-2012), acquired
              1960s, by repute.

              The late Will Barnet was an American artist known for his paintings,
              watercolors, drawings, and prints. In 1936, he became the o cial
              printer for the Art Students’ League. A longtime resident of the
              National Arts Club, Mr. Barnet died in New York City on November 13,
              2012, at the age of 101.

              $ 10,000-12,000

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              PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE EAST COAST COLLECTION

              A PHYLLITE STELE DEPICTING BUDDHA
              Eastern India, Pala period, 9th/10th Century

              Himalayan Art Resources item no. 13419.
              Height: 27 in. (68.6 cm)

              PROVENANCE
              Collection of the late Dr. J.R. Belmont, Basel.
              Sotheby’s London, 27 February 1967, lot 53.
              Sotheby’s New York, 21 and 22 March 1990, lot 277.

              For variations on the type, compare with two Pala steles depicting
              Buddha Shakyamuni, see S. Kramrisch, Pala and Sena Sculpture, 1929,
              no. 16, and also S. L. Huntington, The “Pala-Sena” Schools of Sculpture,
              1984, nos. 39 and 103.

              $ 40,000-60,000
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