Antique Baby Crawling Krishna,Karnataka with a Deep Patina #vintage mexican jewelry

Antique Baby Crawling Krishna,Karnataka with a Deep Patina #vintage mexican jewelryThis bronze is infant Krishna, holding a ball of butter, crawling to escape his foster mother Yasodha. This theme is very popular throughout India and most of the bronzes of this type are small as they are meant for home shrines. It is almost a must for Vaishnavites (Hindus who worship primarily Vishnu) to have one of this image on their altar. As usual, the ornamentation is complete, head, neck, ears, shoulders, back, arms, wrist, waist and ankles.

Size:13” w x 12” d x 14” t

But within this classification of handwork there are different grades and qualities of carpets

woven by members of the Ersari Turkmen tribe from parts of Turkmenistan and Northern Afghanistan

man-eating beast stalks and kills a series of domestic animals with a whip

collectible and Navajo rugs

or “carrier

A very pleasing and authentic rug that with care will outlast all of us

but he later came to see this literal interpretation as characteristic of the first level of knowledge

I had seen the bowls in a local village and due to the language barrier I did not understand they were stone but thought they were fired ceramic

The stone looks like basalt with a very heavy patina and worn smooth by many hands touching it over the centuries

A rare early painting by the noted South African artist

The body of Nandi