Standing Vishnu
9th-10th century
Maker Unknown
Asian Art
This early representation of the Hindu god of preservation combines a hieratic frontal pose with the deity's four attributes: the wheel and a boss symbolizing the lotus in the upper and lower left hands, respectively, and a mace and a conch in the upper and lower right hands.
- Maker/Artist
- Maker Unknown
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Formatted Medium
- Copper alloy
- Locations
- Place made: Nepal
- Dimensions
- 9 1/2 in. (24.1 cm) mount (with object): 9 1/2 × 4 × 3 1/4 in. (24.1 × 10.2 × 8.3 cm)
- Departments
- Asian Art
- Accession Number
- 80.278.1
- Credit Line
- Gift of Cynthia Hazen Polsky
- Exhibitions
- Arts of the Himalayas
- Rights Statement
- Creative Commons-BY
- Museum Location
- Asian Galleries, Arts of the Himalayas, 2nd floor
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