Lord Ganesh in Floral Arch - South Indian Temple Wood Carving Review

Height: 35.00 in
Width: 9.50 in
Depth: 2.50 in

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This magnificent statue, carved out of Vangai wood, a fine timber from Kalakorchi region in Tamilnadu used for wood-carving now for centuries, represents in vertical perspective two forms of Lord Ganesha, almost identical except that in one form Lord Ganesha is lotus-seated while in the other he rides his mount mouse. The forms of the arches, consisting of vine-arabesques, wherein are enshrined the two images, are also different. The arch around the image on the upper side is relatively larger, more elaborate, finely rendered and has in addition a pair of parrots perching on its apex. Both forms of Lord Ganesha are carrying in their normal right hands the piece of broken tusk; however, it is only in the iconography of the image on the bottom that the tusk on the right side reveals more prominently than the other the sign of being broken, as if the artist had in mind to represent the elephant god in his Ekadanta manifestation in contrast to the other, which is apparently the form of Tryakshara Ganapati. Both images of Lord Ganesha, contained in the two-tiered fire-arch, are four-armed and in lalitasana. The left-turning posture of the trunk in both images, known in scriptural tradition as edampuri, is also identical. A laddu is a common attribute that the both trunks carry. The attributes : goad, noose, broken tusk, and a mango motif, that the four hands carry, so also the order of carrying them : goad and noose in upper hands and broken tusk and mango in the lower, are also the same. In both images the elephant god is pot-bellied, has large well unfurling ears and meditative eyes, and is identically bejeweled. Both images have identically conceived large temple-tower-like crowns and an elegantly designed band around the belly. Conceived with slightly different desi Read more...

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