Indian Sculpture and Painting, Illustrated by Typical Masterpieces, with an Explanation of their Motives and Ideals c7.158

c7.158

With this fine Nepalese statuette may be compared another very beautiful one (Plate XI.), found in Ceylon, now in the possession of Dr. A. K. Coomaraswamy, which may be ascribed to the fifth or sixth century A.D. It also seems to represent Maitreya preaching, and was probably an image used in household worship. The reproduction is slightly larger than the original. Though the execution is not carried so far as in some of the other examples, the expressive and truthful movement of the figure is given with consummate skill, not surpassed in any of the much-praised statuettes of Tanagra. There is a very fine collection of similar household deities, found in Java, in the Ethnographic Museum, Leyden.