Description The four armed Vishnu stands in samapada on a double lotus base, to his sides Lakshmi with a flywhisk and Sarastvai with a vina, beside them a small figure. The right main hand in varada mudra, the left hand is missing, in the upper hands gada and chakra, a long garland reaches down to the knees, the plith with adorants, the backslab with elefants, lions, makara heads, hamsa birds, apsara and a kirtmukha at the top.
Dimensions Height 44.5 cm
Literature Compare a very similar stele in the Museum für Asiatische Kunst, Berlin, illustrated in: Claudine Bautze-Picron, The Art of Eastern India, Berlin 1998, no. 214
Provenance Private collection, The Netherlands, acquired at Christie′s, Amsterdam, 12.10.1993, lot 99
Notes VAT: Margin scheme