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Property from the Collection of Eric Wesenberg, California
A SANDSTONE HEAD OF SHIVA
CENTRAL INDIA, CIRCA 11TH CENTURY 8 3/4 in. (22.1 cm) high
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This handsome head of Shiva is finely carved with fleshy cheeks, almond-shaped eyes, high-arching brows, and a petaled halo. He wears an elaborate diadem with suspended pearl swags and a central kirtimukha around his coiffure of tight curls. Compare with a related head of a tirthankara that has similar eyes and arched brows in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (Harle & Topsfield, Indian Art, Oxford, 1987, p.45, fig.53). Also see another example of similar size preserved in the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore (25.262). Provenance Sotheby's, London, 8 May 1997, lot 19 Sotheby's, New York, 24 March 2004, lot 22Private Collection, California