Ganesha

14th century

11.9 cm 10.5 cm 7.5 cm

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The Hindu god Ganesha, best known as a remover of obstacles, is easily recognized by his elephant head. Europeans, even scholars of Asian religions, had little real understanding of Hinduism until at least the late 1600s and tended to represent Ganesha in a way similar to the...

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Mr. and Mrs. John G.Ford, Baltimore, Maryland; given to the Walters Art Museum, 1988.
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