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Indian Bronze Statue of a Standing Deity - PF.1381
Origin: India
Circa: 12
th
Century AD
to 13
th
Century AD
Dimensions:
3.5" (8.9cm) high
x 1.75" (4.4cm) wide
Collection: Asian
Medium: Bronze
$2,400.00
Location: United States
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A bronze like this, depicting a deity brandishing
a weapon and holding a cup, might have been
given as a votive in medieval India. The god
appears to be one of the numerous warrior
spirits of Hindu myth who vanquished evil to
save mankind. In the presence of such a work,
full of spiritual sincerity, we cannot help but
wonder whose gift it was and what favors they
sought from the gods. We recognize that those
forgotten dreams--for health, wealth and
happiness--have hardly altered through the
ages. Such a work unites us with a vanished
world and with the men and women who gave it
meaning.
- (PF.1381)
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