A Copper Alloy Shrine Depicting Surya

Acquired privately in the early 1960s

Wear and accretion overall. Minor losses to torana apex, support strut at reverse and front proper left base leg.
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Standing upright with both hands in katihasta holding the stems of lotuses flowering at each shoulder, wearing extensive body ornaments and garments and flanked by diminutive figures of Danda and Pingala and a central female figure, on a raised rectangular base with seven stylised horses and diminutive female donor figure, a stylised flaming nimbus behind.