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LOT 2579
Copper-alloy Four-Armed Vishnu Figure
INDIA, CIRCA LATE 19TH-20TH CENTURY A.D.
2 7/8 in. (60 grams, 73 mm).
Depicted standing and holding an attribute in two upper hands, wearing a tall conical crown with a lotus flower behind the crown. [No Reserve]
Provenance
An important collection of Hindu art formed by the late Jeffery Romer in the 1990s.
This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by a search certificate number no.12825-241237.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
Literature
Cf. for a prototype of these statuettes, see an example in the British Museum, inv.no. 2014,3025.1, in Hudson, M., ‘Faith of a minority’ in British Museum Magazine, 82, 2015, pp.42-43.
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