INDIA, HIMACHAL PRADESH, 9TH CENTURY

While depictions of Umamaheshvara abound in medieval central Indian art, the stone color, facial features, and modelling of the torso exhibit similarities with works found further north, in Uttar Pradesh. Compare with the Umamaheshvara in the collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum (V&A: IS.113-1986, published in John Guy, Indian Temple Sculpture, 2007, London, p.130 and cover ill., cat.no.146), from ninth-century Almora, and with another at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California (see Darielle Mason, Gods, Guardians, and Lovers, 1993, p.181, cat.no.25).