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A COPPER ALLOY FIGURE OF GANESHA
KERALA, CIRCA 16TH CENTURY3 3/8 in. (8.5 cm) high
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Heavy in the hand and rich in copper, this bronze depicts beloved Ganesha, his four arms holding an elephant goad (ankusha), a noose (pasha), his broken right tusk, and a ball of ladoo. Ganesha's enthusiasm for their sweet, buttery taste is conveyed by his broad smile, the animated coil of his trunk, and his rounded belly.The bronze is depicted in the sculptural tradition of 14th-to-16th century Kerala, as characterized by the enthusiastic ornamentation and busy splendor seen in the striations of his fluttering ears, bell-like anklets, the alert hooded cobra which wraps around him, and the sash between his legs almost splashing onto the lotus petals below. Compare to a Keralan Ganesh in the Siddharth K. Bhansali Collection (Pal, The Elegant Image, New Orleans, 2011, p.185, no.102).Provenance Private Newport Beach Collection, acquired 1962Private West Coast Collection since 2008