• KONDAPALLI, Andhra Pradesh, DECCAN, INDIA, CIRCA 1880 
  
• in two sections
  
• the four armed god, seated in lalitasana on a removable platform on his vahana's back, on rectangular base, 8 inch high
  

Figures of this type were made from a wood called tella puniki and were used for educational purposes to be displayed in museums, demonstrating the characters and deities of India, and later they were made as mementoes for the expatriate community. 

For a pair of later examples in the National Handicrafts and Handlooms Museum, New Delhi, see Jain & Aggarwala 1989, p.202.