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A RED SANDSTONE HEAD OF A VAISHNAVAITE DEITY
NORTH INDIA, CIRCA 12TH CENTURY12 1/2 in. (31.7 cm) high
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This softly modelled divine portrait, with heavy-lidded almond shaped eyes and a Vaishnavite jeweled mitre, shares the same facial type, broad eyebrows, curled fringe, and pinkish sandstone as a 12th-century stele of Vaishnavi from the Kota region of Rajasthan held in the Braj Vilas Palace Museum (Singh (ed.), Museums of Rajasthan, Jaipur, 2009, p.148). Provenance Collection of Fay and William Bullock King (1911-73), South Carolina Thence by descent The Charleston Library Society, South Carolina, 1992-2019