Ganesha is seated on a throne, resting against a huge bolster. He sits in the lalitasana posture. The four-armed deity holds the ankusha, offered to him by the architect of the gods, Vishvakarma. He forgoes his lasso (pasha) for a padma in one hand.
Ganesha and his modakas are inseparable. He holds a bowl full of these sweets in one hand, even as another dish of the same lies in the foreground, next to his feet. His trunk unwittingly moves towards the sweets bowl, and he raises one hand in the gesture of boon granting. Ganesha is dressed in silk finery and precious jewellery. He wears a gem encrusted crown that also has a prabhavali. The mouse, his vahana (vehicle), sits reverently at his feet. It may be painted in an inconspicuous manner but its importance cannot be minimized.
The artist has painted the image, keeping the iconographical norms in mind, but the background is his imagination. The terrace, the vegetation etc. adds to the aesthetic value of the painted marble saucer plate with a decorated golden border.
This description by Renu Rana.
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