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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE NEW YORK CITY COLLECTION
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A BRONZE FIGURE OF SHIVA
SOUTH INDIA, TAMIL NADU, VIJAYANAGARA OR NAYAKA PERIOD,
16TH-17TH CENTURY
19Ω in. (49.5 cm.) high
$50,000-70,000
PROVENANCE:
J.J. Klejman Gallery, New York, by July 1972.

印度南部 泰米爾納德邦 毗奢耶那伽羅王朝或納亞克時期
十六/十七世紀 銅濕婆坐像
來源:
J.J. Klejman Gallery，紐約，不晚於1972年7月。
Seated in a regal posture, with poised dignity, the present bronze depicts
Shiva in a frontal pose, his lower proper right hand in abhayamudra (conferring
protection or reassurance) and the lower proper left in ahuyavaradamudra
(inviting the conference of boons); in the other two he holds his weapon, the
battle-axe, and his favorite companion, the antelope, the head of which is
turned in to face his lord. He is dressed in a short and unadorned dhoti and is
adorned with a sacred thread that is knotted at the center of the chest above
a band strapped around the ribs, necklaces centered with a foliate medallion,
and beaded armlets and anklets. His long dreadlocks of hair, jata, are braided
into a high chignon atop his head.