A female torso made from black chlorite (a type of mineral chlortie rock). From Mewar, Rajasthan, India, dates back to 9th century, currently housed at Victoria and Albert Museum in London [1080×1346]
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A female torso made from black chlorite (a type of mineral chlortie rock). From Mewar, Rajasthan, India, dates back to 9th century, currently housed at Victoria and Albert Museum in London [1080×1346]
by kuan_waale_thakur
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Description of this sculpture:
A headless and armless female figure, carved in black chlorite, with legs broken and missing from above the knees. Originally a standing figure in an emphatic tribhanga pose, she wears a diaphanous lower garment with widely spaced wavy double lines kept in place with a girdle decorated with a scrolling pattern on her hips and over which an end of the lower garment flops on her right hand side. A jewelled belt encircles the girdle from which hang two tasselled ropes of pearls looped over her thighs with smaller intermediate loops lying higher up on her thighs with strings of perals meandering down her legs reflecting the movement apparent in the twisted posture of her hips. She is nude above with the exception of a pendant necklace and five ropes of pearls looped over her rounded breasts down to her waist with another string snaking down the middle between them.
Source:
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O63600/sculpture-sculpture-unknown/