A RARE BRONZE FIGURE OF SHIVA NATARAJA SOUTH INDIA, TAMIL NADU, CHOLA PERIOD, 13TH CENTURY Shown with one leg raised on the back of a recumbent dwarf, who plays with a snake, standing on a rectangular plinth, his lower arms held in dance mudras and his upper arms outstretched and holding a drum and flame, clad in a short dhoti and wrapped nagas and sashes, with a chain swinging from his waist, surrounded by a flaming aureole and flanked by diminutive figures of musicians, who beat a drum and play the cymbals 8 ¾ in. (22 cm.) high Provenance The Pan-Asian Collection (Christian Humann, d. 1981), New York, by 1976. R.H. Ellsworth Ltd., New York, by 1982. Eastern Pacific Co., Hong Kong, 10 July 1990. The Irving Collection, no. 2943.
A RARE BRONZE FIGURE OF SHIVA NATARAJA SOUTH INDIA, TAMIL NADU, CHOLA PERIOD, 13TH CENTURY Shown with one leg raised on the back of a recumbent dwarf, who plays with a snake, standing on a rectangular plinth, his lower arms held in dance mudras and his upper arms outstretched and holding a drum and flame, clad in a short dhoti and wrapped nagas and sashes, with a chain swinging from his waist, surrounded by a flaming aureole and flanked by diminutive figures of musicians, who beat a drum and play the cymbals 8 ¾ in. (22 cm.) high Provenance The Pan-Asian Collection (Christian Humann, d. 1981), New York, by 1976. R.H. Ellsworth Ltd., New York, by 1982. Eastern Pacific Co., Hong Kong, 10 July 1990. The Irving Collection, no. 2943.
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