Ganesha Iconography and Mubarak Mandi Gate

Frontispiece of the book ‘L’art des cuivres anciens au Cachemire & au Petit-Thibet (1883)’
[Art of Antique Brass of Kashmir & The Little Tibet by Ch. E. Ujfalvy,  drawings  by B. Schmidt]
Captioned as: ‘The god Ganesha served by two young girls’ [available here at archive.org]
(These early European collectors obviously had no idea what they were hoarding, proper studies started only much later)
In the above image, the deity sits like an emperor 
Mubarak Mandi Gate (Darshani Deodi), Old Jammu

Painting on top of the gate
Ganesha with wives Riddhi and Siddhi

On top of another gate to a building complex in Mubarak Mandi

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