A BUFF SANDSTONE PANEL OF DANCING GANESHA


NORTH INDIA, CIRCA 10TH CENTURY16 1/2 in. (42 cm) high
|Dancing enthusiastically, Ganesha seems almost about to slide out from in between the two pillars of the panel's niche. Accompanied by his rat, Ganesha holds an axe and sample his ladoo with his trunk. The foliate triangle above the niche likely formed part of a candrasalika above, suggested by a closely related 10th-century example from Uttar Pradesh, published in Deva & Trivedi, Stone Sculptures in the Allahabad Museum, Vol. 2, New Delhi, 1996, fig.62. Provenance Collection of John Edward Marshall, Massachusetts, acquired in 1968 Thence by descent