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Asian Art

Standing Vishnu

9th–10th century

Brooklyn Museum photograph

Object Label

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.

Caption

Standing Vishnu, 9th–10th century. Copper alloy, 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). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Cynthia Hazen Polsky, 80.278.1. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)

Gallery

Not on view

Collection

Asian Art

Title

Standing Vishnu

Date

9th–10th century

Geography

Place made: Nepal

Medium

Copper alloy

Classification

Sculpture

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)

Credit Line

Gift of Cynthia Hazen Polsky

Accession Number

80.278.1

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