TWO CARVED RELIEF WOOD STRUTS

Description:

Nepal, ca. 19th c.
H. 58-58,5 cm
The first carved in high relief with probably Vyagravaktra dancing on an animal placed on a lotus base, her four arms radiating around her body, wearing sari, bejewelled, mala of severed heads, her boar head with snout, pricked ears, flaming hairdo and placed below the leafs of a tree; and a figure of Bhairava as well dancing on an animal reclining on a lotus base, four-armed, both secondary ones with sword and shield, wearing skirt, mala of severed heads, bejewelled, his face displaying a wrathful expression, flaming hairdo secured with a tiara and placed below a tree.
From a South German private collection, in the family since 1972
Traces of age