This exquisitely carved dancing figure holding a pair of cymbals once served as a bracket figure for a Hindu temple in Karnataka. She is adorned with copious jewelry, including head ornaments, large earrings, several necklaces (the long strands in front of her full breasts are now broken), shoulder trimmings, armlets with rearing cobras, bracelets, finger rings, a waist band with multiple dangling components and a bejeweled long sash that hangs to her crossed ankles, anklets, ankle bracelets, and toe rings. She is carved in the round apart from several structural supports and dances beneath a bower embellished with a scrolling lotus vine and bunches of mangoes and grapes.
