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Lot 256W

A pair of red sandstone Yakshi Figures holding infants
Rajasthan or Madhya Pradesh, 10th - 11th Century

18 June 2013, 11:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

£5,000 - £7,000

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A pair of red sandstone Yakshi Figures holding infants
Rajasthan or Madhya Pradesh, 10th - 11th Century

the figures carved in relief, set in niches under leafy bowers, standing in abhanga posture, wearing long striated skirt, beaded necklace, large circular earrings, hair pulled into chignon secured with foliate tiara, both cradling infants, the yakshi on the right holding a flowering plant
49 cm. high

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Provenance: Private German Collection since the 1970s.

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