A small bronze image of Krishna

16th/ 17th century, South India

Height: 11 cm, 4.3 inches

The figure stands on a lotus base upon a square stand, his right leg is raised in dance and supported by a stump, his left arm is outstretched with fingers slopping downwards, his right arm bent and holding a fresh butter ball that he has just stolen from the kitchen, his chubby body naked but for ornamental jewellery, with smiling face and hair raised into a top knot.