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LOT 1735
Indian Bronze Figure of Lakshmi
CIRCA 18TH-19TH CENTURY A.D.
11 in. (1.2 kg, 28 cm high).
Standing on an integral decorated plinth base and holding two lotus flowers wrapped around her shoulders and wrist; her slender body clad in a long paridhana gathered at the waist with a sash, her upper torso adorned with necklaces and her arms with armlets and bracelets; wearing a tiered feather and flower crown. [No Reserve]
Provenance
Ex private Surrey collection.
From the collection of a Lincolnshire, UK, gentleman.
Literature
See Ahuja, N.P., Arts and Archaeology of Ancient India. Earliest Times to the Sixth Century, Oxford, 2018, p.192-3.
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