A sandstone arch from the prabhatorana of a Vishnu stele. Central India, Madhya Pradesh/Rajasthan. 11th/12th century - image-1
A sandstone arch from the prabhatorana of a Vishnu stele. Central India, Madhya Pradesh/Rajasthan. 11th/12th century - image-2
A sandstone arch from the prabhatorana of a Vishnu stele. Central India, Madhya Pradesh/Rajasthan. 11th/12th century - image-3
A sandstone arch from the prabhatorana of a Vishnu stele. Central India, Madhya Pradesh/Rajasthan. 11th/12th century - image-1A sandstone arch from the prabhatorana of a Vishnu stele. Central India, Madhya Pradesh/Rajasthan. 11th/12th century - image-2A sandstone arch from the prabhatorana of a Vishnu stele. Central India, Madhya Pradesh/Rajasthan. 11th/12th century - image-3

Lot 6 Dα

A sandstone arch from the prabhatorana of a Vishnu stele. Central India, Madhya Pradesh/Rajasthan. 11th/12th century

Auction 1226 - overview Cologne
21.06.2023, 10:30 - Asian Art
Estimate: 6.000 € - 8.000 €
Result: 12.600 € (incl. premium)
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A sandstone arch from the prabhatorana of a Vishnu stele. Central India, Madhya Pradesh/Rajasthan. 11th/12th century

Carved with three ancillary shrine-like chambers, each seated deity therein representing an emanation of Vishnu, depicted holding his four attributes and flanked by two female attendants/Lakshmi and Bhudevi. The shrine depicted at the top centre shows a deity seated in vajrasana, his two hands placed in the lap and lotus stems rising on either side, to both sides of the central shrine Vishnu figures, the upper borders with a row of adorants. Marble stand.
Height 51 cm; width 85 cm

Certificate

Documentation by Galerie de Ruimte, Eersel, dated July 1981

Provenance

Private collection, The Netherlands, acquired from Galerie de Ruimte, Jean en Marcel Nies, Eersel

Literature

Compare an almost identical composition of the prabhatorana arch of a Rajasthani black stone Vishnu stele offered at Sotheby’s, New York, 20.3.2013, lot 268