This excellent brass image, unique in lustre as the cast of gold mixed with copper, divine aura, precise details, elegance, technical perfection, and strangely anatomical balance – something rarely achievable in Ganapati iconography, represents Lord Ganesha in his manifestation as Vijay Ganapati. Vijay Ganapati is one of his thirty-two forms enumerated in early texts, the Maudgalya Purana being the main and the earliest. The image is the reminiscent of early tradition of Indian bronzes that the Chola dynasty in the South, and Pala, in the east, had led to its apex.