Ganesha

Polychrome painting on card depicting Lord Ganesha seated on a multi-tiered plinth. His four arms, head and legs are white, with a buff jerkin covering his torso, and a green skirt cloth with pleated element at the front below the waist. He wears a crown, breast flap, necklace, anklets and bracelets and leans against a bolster with a blue patterned cover. Two of his four arms are raised; in his upper left hand he holds a noose, pasha, and in his upper right an elephant goad, angkusha. His trunk rests in his lower left hand which holds a sweetmeat, and in his lower right is his broken tusk. At his feet is a mouse or rat, his vahana. Ganesha is seated under an arch against a red background.

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