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The right arm, formerly raised, is now broken and missing while the left arm hangs down against her body. A thin scarf is entwined round her upper arm and is grasped by her left hand but is broken off below. To her right of her legs there are remains of what might have been a small attendant figure, now almost completely missing.The figure has almond-shaped eyes and a gentle smile on her face. Her upper body is naked but is adorned by a double row of pearls round her neck which fall between her rounded breasts to a large ornamental clasp below her waist from which hangs a single string of pearls. She is wearing an ankle-length striped diaphanous muslin <i>antariya</i> which is held in place by a decorative girdle with scroll patterning at her hips, over which one end of the<i> antariya</i> flops on her left side. Strings of pearls hang from a central tassel which emerges from under the girdle and are looped across her thighs. She is further adorned by large, wheel-like earrings, a large <i>bazuband</i> on her remaining left upper arm and wrist bangle. She also has a beaded anklet on her visible left foot which rests just below her ankle on the arch of her foot.  A large lotus bud hangs down  beside her face to her left. Further lotus blooms can be seen entwined round the arms of a flying  celestial male figure which supports the plinth that is carved with petal motifs on which the female figure stands.  He is adorned with a beaded necklace and similar wheel-shaped earrings.\r\n","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Unknown","id":"A1848"},"association":{"text":"","id":""},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[],"techniques":[{"text":"carving","id":"AAT53149"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Reddish sandstone","categories":[{"text":"Sculpture","id":"THES48896"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"SSEA","id":"THES48598"},"images":["2006AM4811"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"003","id":"THES396763"},"free":"","case":"","shelf":"","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"figures (representations)","id":"AAT189808"}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Rajasthan","id":"x29841"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":"Said to have probably come from the  Jhalawar region in south-east Rajasthan. 10th century"}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"10th Century","earliest":"0900-01-01","latest":"1000-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"24","unit":"in","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"6.5","unit":"in","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Depth","value":"4.75","unit":"in","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"","marksAndInscriptions":[],"objectHistory":"Bought from Spink and Son.\r\n Apasaras are nymph-like divinities inhabiting the sky or atmosphere, but often visiting the earth.  They have the faculty of changing their shapes at will.  In the early Indian tradition they were especially associated with water; in later tradition with song and dance.  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