{"id":12171,"date":"2007-03-27T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-27T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2007\/03\/27\/ancient-chola-period-siva-statue-sets-auction-record\/"},"modified":"2007-03-27T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-03-27T12:00:00","slug":"ancient-chola-period-siva-statue-sets-auction-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2007\/03\/27\/ancient-chola-period-siva-statue-sets-auction-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Ancient Chola Period Siva Statue Sets Auction Record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"source\"><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601088&#038;sid=aTmmbQ2aUGIE&#038;refer=home\">www.bloomberg.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">NEW YORK, NEW YORK, March 25, 2007: A rare, majestic 10th-century Indian granite sculpture of Lord Siva fetched US$4.07 million this morning at Sotheby&#8217;s in New York, slightly above the $4 million high estimate. It is an auction record for classical Indian art.  The Siva dates to the Chola Period (860-1297), an era of artistic flowering in Southern India. &#8220;It&#8217;s a definitive example of Chola sculpture,&#8221; freelance curator Pratapaditya Pal said at the auction. &#8220;It&#8217;s like a major Picasso.&#8221;  The Siva was one of 11 lots sold by Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York, at Sotheby&#8217;s Indian and Southeast Asian art auctions, including panels from a 17th-century ivory casket, an 11th-century Cambodian sandstone torso and a circa 2nd-century gray schist Bodhisattva head.  &#8220;The market is clearly buoyant for provenance and higher- quality items,&#8221; said Carlton Rochell, a New York dealer specializing in Indian and Southeast Asian art.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>www.bloomberg.com NEW YORK, NEW YORK, March 25, 2007: A rare, majestic 10th-century Indian granite sculpture of Lord Siva fetched US$4.07,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}