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Krishna Vishnu Baby Crawling Chola Style Bronze Antique South India - $599 (Irvine orange county)
condition:
excellent
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This small, solid cast bronze image of the infant Krishna crawling away from his mother after she sees him ‘stealing’ fresh butter. his right hand holds the butterball (after having raided his mother’s larder, according to legend.)
The image’s body is naked other than for items of cast jewellery including prominent ear ornaments.
Krishna also wears a tiered hair ornament or hair bun.
This dynamically cast piece has soft contours from time and use, and a dark patina commensurate with its age.
The image is solid cast and has good weight for its size.
Hand made of bronze using the ‘lost wax technique’*. Only one of these statues is ever made
Dramatic and striking.
*Lost-wax Method or madhuchchhishtavidhana or cire perdue is the method of pouring molten metal into the hollow of a wax mould. This wax mold is lost during the making process. Bronze is used as the preferred metal as it is stronger and more tensile.
** Krishna is an iconographical depiction of the 9th avatar of Vishnu.
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