A HEAVILY CAST BRONZE FIGURE OF BALAKRISHNA, 18TH-19TH CENTURY India. Depicting Krishna as the Divine Baby, known as Balakrishna, crawling on his hands and knees with a ball of butter stolen from his mother Yashoda's churn. The massive bronze is decorated with fine incisions forming the facial features, dress and limbs. Condition: Excellent condition with minor wear and a fine patina. Provenance: From the collection of Georg Weifert (1850-1937). Thence by descent in the same family. Weifert was a Serbo- Austrian industrialist and the first governor of the Federal Bank of the Kingdom of Serbia, Croatia and Slovenia. Weight: 2,394 g. Dimensions: Height 15.3 cm. Literature comparison: Compare with a similar but slightly older copper alloy figure of Balakrishna at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.