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Ganesha
South India
circa 16th century

height: 10.3 cm

A figure of a four-armed Ganesha with a huge pot belly, large, extended ears,
seated on a square, raised platform.

He holds in his lower left hand a ball of sweets (
modaka) into which his trunk is
curled. Other hands hold a conch and other attributes.

He wears an unusual large sharply-tiered conical head-dress surmounted by a
lotus bud finial.

Inventory no.: 186

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