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Lot 2136
A BRONZE FIGURE OF KRISHNA
Estimated Value:
800 € - 1.200 €
Schätzpreis:
800 €
Description:
South-India, ca. 1900H. 25,5 cm
Represented in dancing posture on a plinth placed in a tiered pedestal with the principle hands originally holding the flute, the secondary ones with chakra and shankha, wearing dhoti, bejewelled, his face displaying a serene expression with almond-shaped eyes below arched eyebrows, kiritamakuta, and a separate cast elaborate flaming mandorla behind topped with a lion-mask.
From a Franconian private collection, assembled between 1970 and 1995
Minor wear, partly only few tiny chips