A GRAY STONE STELE DEPICTING PARVATI NEPAL, 12TH CENTURY
the goddess standing in Samabhanga on a double lotus throne, with the left hand on her hip and the right hand extended holding a lotus bud atop blooming lotus flowers, elegantly coiffed wearing an elaborate headdress, with ringlets of hair cascading over the headdress and down her rounded shoulders, wearing large circular earrings and diaphanous garments
Height 16 1/2 in., 40.6 cm
Height 16 1/2 in., 40.6 cm
Details
- Title : A GRAY STONE STELE DEPICTING PARVATI NEPAL, 12TH CENTURY
- Year : 12TH CENTURY
- Classification : Sculpture
- Medium : Gray Stone
- Dimension : Height 16 1/2 in., 40.6 cm
- Accession No : LOT 1194
- Country/ Geo-location : NEPAL
- Collection : Sotheby’s
- Status : SOLD AT: SATURDAY AT SOTHEBY’S: ASIAN ART 18 MARCH 2017 | 10:00 AM EDT NEW YORK
- ESTIMATE : 4,000 — 6,000 USD
- LOT SOLD : 7,500 USD
- PROVENANCE : Sotheby's New York, 22nd March 1989, lot 27.