Details: A very cute and tactile example of a 2nd to 3rd century green schist reliquary casket from Gandhara. The spherical casket has two delicately incised concentric lines on both the top and bottom typical of Gandharan reliquaries and is topped by a pistil shaped knob. The casket contains three relics, a bronze coin and two glass items, one of which shows the ancient auspicious symbol of the swastika.
This large bronze figure of Tara on a double lotus base is seated in lalitasana with one hand raised in vitarka mudra. She is also holding lotus stalks in each hand that flank her shoulders.
It measures 15 inches tall by about 12 inches wide by 9 inches in depth (at it's widest point).
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Details: A very graceful and classically indic 10th century buff sandstone image of the Hindu sun god Surya from Madhya Pradesh in Central India. The sun god is adorned with heavy elaborate beaded jewelry and is wearing a tall intricate and finely carved headdress. In his one remaining hand he is holding one of his attributes a beautiful lotus, which he would have originally held in both his hands.
Antique Indian white marble figure of Garuda in youthful human form, cobras wrapped around neck, shoulders, arms and encircling his head like a crown, hands clasped over the head of a giant cobra, losses of wings and lower portion of body, 16th/17th century.
Large Indian Horse Head Festival Mask from Orissa, an area of India renowned for centuries for its fine sculpture. A beautiful, colorful and large example, 2 feet (61cm) in height. From the collection of a prominent author on and collector of Asian art.
Fine, Large Early 20th Century Guardian Figure Wood Sculpture from Bihar, India of an Overseer. Purchased in Barani, New Delhi in 1995. 27.5 inches, 70 cm. From the collection of a prominent author on and collector of Asian art.
