Indian Art: A History of Indian Art from the Earliest Times up to the Third Century A.D. c16.24

c16.24

Another figure from the same place (ht. 5¼") shows a smiling female dancer standing in graceful posture, resting the weight of her body on right foot and having the left knee slightly bent and the two hands clasped in front. She is wearing a voluted turban on head, a double pearl-string on the fore-head, a round ear-ring in right ear and a cylindrical drum in left ear, a flat torque round neck and a pearl necklace on the breasts, heavy wristlets and a broad girdle of flattened and fluted beads.