STATUE DE VAMANA EN GRÈS BEIGINDE DU NORD, VERS XIE SIÈCLE75.6 cm (29 3/4 in.) highProvenance: A BUFF SANDSTONE FIGURE OF VAMANANORTH INDIA, CIRCA 11TH CENTURY印度北部 約十一世紀 砂岩筏摩那像Provenance:With Claude de Marteau, Brussels, by 1970sVamana is the fifth avatar of Vishnu, who appeared to restore the authority of Indra over the heavens from the usurper king Bali. In his sculptural representations, when part of a series depicting Vishnu's avatars, Vamana typically appears either as the giant Trivikrama or as the dwarven Brahmin, uncrowned and holding a wooden parasol. Both are quite different from the present example, which instead stems from a series depicting the twenty-four emanations (chaturvimshati keshava namas) of Vishnu described in theMahabharata andPuranas. In his form as Vamana, Vishnu appears similarly pot-bellied and broad-faced, but also crowned, holding his attributes, and flanked by his wives. This representation is shown with a dagger in his belt as with an example in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (AC1993.54.1).Compare with a figure of Vamana in the Jhansi Museum (see Trivedi, 1983, fig. 16). Alsopare with an example sold at , London, 23 October 2018, lot 157 and Christie's, New York, 23 September 2007, lot 273.