A BUFF SANDSTONE STELE DEPICTING PARVATI Central India, 11th century

the four-armed goddess with her lower right hand in varada mudra, her remaining three hands holding a mala and kalasa, flanked by two female attendants each standing in tribhanga and holding a kalasa, a recumbent lion and bull at lower left and right, her sons Skandha and Ganesha on either side, and four diminutive worshippers presenting offerings above, an openwork nimbus behind her head decorated in low-relief with diamond-shaped foliate medallions

Sotheby's New York, 16 September 1999, lot 118.

Wear, staining, accretion and scattered areas of paint throughout, as viewed. Losses to monkey's head at upper left, and figure's head at upper right. Loss to flower accoutrement in secondary left hand. Losses to vase element in primary left hand. Some loss to fingertips in primary and secondary right hands. Additional areas of scattered losses and accretion to auxiliary figures and animals.
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