22nd May, 2019 12:00

European & Asian Works of Art

 
Lot 123
 

123

A BUFF SANDSTONE PLINTH FROM AN IMAGE

A BUFF SANDSTONE PLINTH FROM AN IMAGE, CENTRAL INDIA, 10TH/11TH CENTURY carved in relief depicting a small central figure of Nandi on a cloth with a Saivite devotee(?) flanked by a pair of rearing vyalas, columns on either side with further vyalas and elephants at each end, a line of devanagari script along the bottom, mounted 27 x 60 x 13cm Provenance: From the Estate of the late Aura Josefina Figueroa de Williamson. The indistinct inscription includes a possible date which appears to read samvat 1012 (956 A.D.)

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A BUFF SANDSTONE PLINTH FROM AN IMAGE, CENTRAL INDIA, 10TH/11TH CENTURY carved in relief depicting a small central figure of Nandi on a cloth with a Saivite devotee(?) flanked by a pair of rearing vyalas, columns on either side with further vyalas and elephants at each end, a line of devanagari script along the bottom, mounted 27 x 60 x 13cm Provenance: From the Estate of the late Aura Josefina Figueroa de Williamson. The indistinct inscription includes a possible date which appears to read samvat 1012 (956 A.D.)