Very Large Size Murlidhar Krishna with Krishna Lilas on The Base - South Indian Temple Wood Carving

Dimensions: 72 inch Height x 23.5 inch Width X 6 inch Depth Buy Wooden Sculptures & Carvings | India Sculptures | ExoticIndiaSouth Indian Temple Wood CarvingThis magnificent piece of art, figures, exotic forms of foliage :vines twisting with dramatic curves, and arabesques with pleasingcontours, all full of magic, astonishing and bewitching, carved withthread-like fineness, creates in wood a composition a symphony orsong, rarely seen carved even on an ivory piece or drawn on canvas. Asin a carnival, figures : Krishnas, Gopis or cows, and forms ofvines, arabesques and various design-patterns, seem to swing in andoccupy the stage performing a drama such as a wood-piece is not knownto have ever enacted. Hardly a panel in relief, and a sculpture in theleast, far ahead of representing a figure, divine or human, or atheme, the artifact represents a series of them. Here are Krishnasown figures re-appearing, and each in a different role; vines,alternating arabesques, or acquiring unconventional roles astransforming into seats providing for lavish bolsters and royalsitters; ornaments : strings of beads, relieving costumes, andcostumes, transforming into ornaments.The entire panel, conceived in the form of a Prabhavali, has beencompartmentalized into two parts of which the upper one has furtherthree broad sections. Like its usual form, Prabhavali has not beenconceived as the frame or the background which the divine figuresculpted with it pervades or enshrines. In this panel the figure ofKrishna has not been superimposed over the Prabhavali; Krishnasfigure rather merges into it in absolute unity with the result thatKrishna and Prabhavali emerge as alike components of one unifiedwhole. Thus, instead of portraying a figure against the Prabhavaliusing it as its background, the usual relation of the image withPrabhavali, this wood-panel has composed the two, the image and thePrabhavali, as each others integral parts and components of

• Material: South Indian Temple Wood Carving
• Dimensions: 72 inch Height x 23.5 inch Width X 6 inch Depth
• Weight: 47.5 kg