Important antique carved stone stele, India, modeled as Vamana, the fifth incarnation of Vishnu, deity of humility and divine justice, standing in a symmetrical samabhanga pose with negative space at either side of the body, holding a sankha conch in one hand, the opposite hand in the varada mudra, flanked at sides by various donors, approx 21.5"h, 15.5"w, 5.5"d, 80lbs **Provenance: American private collection, acquired in the 1990s; the contents of a retired Wall Street executive's lakeside compound**

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