A SANDSTONE FIGURE OF A CELESTIAL ATTENDANT


NORTH INDIA, CIRCA 12TH CENTURY The base with a short, carved inscription. 20 3/4 in. (52.7 cm) high
|This limber celestial attendant offers the gesture of charity (varadamudra) with his right hand. His left holds a waterpot, a symbol of purity and divine blessing. He stands in the elegant tribhanga pose, which the sculptor has cleverly emphasized with a garland passing between the shins. A relief of "Vishnu (sic)" almost certainly of the same origin, was sold at Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 1 & 2 February 1963, lot 133. Provenance Estate of Dorothy Beskind (1917-2014), New York, acquired mid 1960s Thence by descent