57. 57W STATUE DE PARVATI EN GRANIT INDE DU SUD, FIN DE L'ÉPOQUE CHOLA, VERS XIIIE SIÈCLE 134.5 cm (53 in.) high A GRANITE FIGURE OF PARVATI SOUTH INDIA, LATE CHOLA PERIOD, CIRCA 13TH CENTURY 印度南部 朱羅王朝晚期 約十三世紀 花崗岩雪山神女像 Provenance: With Claude de Marteau, Brussels, by 1968 Parvati as the consort of Shiva holds an utpala (blue waterlily) in her raised right hand. She wears a long ribbed dhoti secured with an elaborate belt with beaded festoons and multiple necklaces, including the sacred thread about her torso. Her rounded face with almond-shaped eyes is surmounted by a conical headdress. The tresses of her hair are arranged in spiralling roundels along each ear in a manner shared with another Parvati sold Sotheby's London 11 October 1990 and a Bhudevi in Neven, Sculpture des Indes, Brussels, 1978, p. 114, no. 83. Also compare with a four-armed Devi sold at Christie's, New York, 20 September 2006, lot 7. Further stylistic comparisons are shared with a Bhudevi and Sridevi sold Christie's, New York, 20 September 2006, lot 70.