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FIGURES 49-5 I FIGURE 52
Parvati, late ix-early x century. Height 27% in. Parvati, x century. Height 40 in. Freer
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, bequest of Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C.
Cora Timken Burnett, 57.51.3

The tip of the nose and the index finger of the right Freer Gallery Parvati (Figure 52), which is assigned by
hand are broken off and missing; the lower left arm is him to c. 900oo-925. He also refers to the Kodumudi
partly broken. Vishnu (Figure 22), which he dates to the middle of the
The bronze Parvati was first published in The Metro- tenth century as well, but which I believe to be some-
politan Museum Art Bulletin94 and dated to about A.D. what earlier (see above). Douglas Barrett97 dates the
of
Authorities somewhat in this New York Parvati to c. He the to
900. vary dating sculpture. 975. compares image
C. Sivaramamurtis9 called her "ninth-tenth century"
and praised her for possessing "all the charm of the 94. The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 16(1957-1958) p. 53;
transitional period"; the latter phase lasted, in his reck- 18 (February, 1960) cover.
oning, until the accession of Parantaka I in 907. P. R. 95. Sivaramamurti, Bronzes, pls. 58 a-b.
96. P. R. Srinivasan, Bronzes, figs. 76-77.
Srinivasan96 dates her to c. 950. He compares her to the 97. Barrett, Cola Bronzes, p. 24.

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