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Makhan Cor Krishna Butter Thief Antique South India Hindu Carved Divine Child Wood Statue
Makhan Cor Krishna Butter Thief Antique South India Hindu Carved Divine Child Wood Statue
Makhan Cor Krishna Butter Thief Antique South India Hindu Carved Divine Child Wood Statue
Makhan Cor Krishna Butter Thief Antique South India Hindu Carved Divine Child Wood Statue
Makhan Cor Krishna Butter Thief Antique South India Hindu Carved Divine Child Wood Statue
Makhan Cor Krishna Butter Thief Antique South India Hindu Carved Divine Child Wood Statue
Makhan Cor Krishna Butter Thief Antique South India Hindu Carved Divine Child Wood Statue
Makhan Cor Krishna Butter Thief Antique South India Hindu Carved Divine Child Wood Statue

Makhan Cor Krishna Butter Thief Antique South India Hindu Carved Divine Child Wood Statue

$295.00 $0.00

Antique South India Wood Carving
Makhancor Krishna
As Child Butter Thief
Origin: India. Circa: early 20th century
H 9 in. (22.8cm.), W 4 in. (10cm), D 3.75 in. (9.5cm)
Condition: age crack, overall good!

Krishna is a major deity worshiped as the eighth avatar of the god Vishnu and also as the supreme God in Hinduism. His iconography reflects the legend first as a divine-child, a prankster, a gopis lover, a divine hero, and as the universal supreme being; which is beautifully portrayed in this early 20th-century statue with its fabulous South Indian classic style. As the God-child Krishna eating butter, the power of the deity pours through in the rendering of allegorical masculinity. The carving communicates the revere passion in single-pointed concentration, with tensions between the rough-hewn artistry and the power and presence of the deity that makes this sorcerous Krishna statue most compelling.