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A COPPER ALLOY FIGURE OF PARVATI Provenance
SOUTH INDIA, CHOLA PERIOD, 13TH CENTURY Acquired in 1962 from Devindra Handicrafts
Himalayan Art Resources item no.61963 Derek Niblo, Newport Beach, CA
10 in. (25.4 cm) high Jerry Solomon, Los Angeles, 2005
Edwin and Cherie Silver, Los Angeles, 2005
$15,000 - 20,000 Thence by descent
The heavily textured pleats and raised bands of this figure’s lower
garment, are shared by an Uma and a Devasena figure in the Norton
Simon Museum (Pal, Art from the Indian Subcontinent, Pasadena,
2003, pp.268 & 269, nos.192b & 193.
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