Yellow bronze. India, 19th cent.
Very neat small bronze depicting the boy Krishna, the eighth incarnation of the high god Vishnu, standing on a round base in the well-known flute-playing pose. Krishna played the flute when he was with the cow-hearding girls who performed their dances for him during the autumn nights. The small flute is missing, nevertheless, the hand pose is expressive and characteristic. With good patina.
HEIGHT 12,5 CM
From a German private collection