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Property from the Collection of Siddharth K. Bhansali
A COPPER ALLOY FIGURE OF GANESHA?
TAMIL NADU, CHOLA PERIOD, 12TH CENTURY?13 3/4 in. (34.9 cm) high
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Expressing his affinity for the beloved elephant-headed god, a confident artist has cast Ganesha with an emphatic childlike smile behind the long, sinuous trunk. The mischievous "Remover of Obstacles", Ganesha is worshipped to bless both the start and success of almost any undertaking. In Chola times, a bronze Ganesha was a part of every festival. This sculpture shows signs of ritual use and ablutions, left with a polished forest green trunk. Ganesha's round belly is another area frequently touched by devotees, and the cord draped over his right shoulder has been rubbed down to a faint impression across his stomach.Compared to many more dwarfish renditions, this model of Ganesha boasts a tall physique and other artistic merits astutely explained by Dr. Pal:?"But for the minimal apparel consisting of a short loincloth, the god would be naked. His short, plump legs and feet clearly demonstrate his tender age, but the ample overhanging belly and the torso are of an adult. This [His] composite human body carries a naturalistically modelled elephant head with a gracefully swimming trunk scooping up the sweet from the left palm. The corresponding right hand delicately grasps his broken right tusk which he is about to hurl at the Moon, who mocked the roly-poly lad for his inordinate gluttony for sweets. The second pair of hands hold the elephant-goad (right) and the noose (left). Noteworthy are the prominent fan-like ears, reflecting the unknown artist's familiarity with the elephant.??"Lively and elegant with his chubby legs, a hanging rotund belly, but a well-proportioned torso, the bronze is a handsome representation of the 12th century, still revealing the creative impulse of the Chola sculptors. Comparable are bronzes at the Melaperumpallam temple dated to 1178 [Dehejia 1990 figs 87-88; so also Pal 2005, no.169d for a stylistically closely related example). The Bhansali bronze, however, is distinguished by its unusual combination of proportions in conceiving the body and the endearing manner in which the tip of the long, sinuous trunk is about to lift the sweetmeat off the palm."?Published?Pratapaditya Pal, The Elegant Image: Hindu, Buddhist and Jain Bronzes from the Indian Subcontinent in the Siddharth K. Bhansali Collection, New Orleans, 2011, pp.167-8, no.90.??Exhibited?The Elegant Image: Hindu, Buddhist and Jain Bronzes from the Indian Subcontinent in the Siddharth K. Bhansali Collection, New Orleans Museum of Art, 5 August - 23 October 2011.??Provenance?Collection of Siddharth K. Bhansali, New OrleansAcquired in London between 1978-83