Bronze sculpture of a dancing woman playing the dholak drum

A typical example of traditional Indian craftsmanship. The figure depicts a female musician in a dynamic dancing pose with knees bent, while standing on a plinth decorated with an inverted lotus flower motif. The musical instrument hung around her neck is the dholak (or mridangam), a double-sided drum widely used in Indian folk and classical music.

India, beg. 20th century, bronze, h. 95 cm