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Lot 684
A MINIATURE DEPICTING KARANI MATA
Estimated Value:
900 € - 1.500 €
Result:
incl. Premium and VAT
Description:
North-India, Jaipur, 18th cent.27,8 x 18,8 cm / 43,2 x 34,2 cm
The wrathul manifistation of Parvati is standing in samapada, her hands holding trishula and severed head, wearing sari, blouse, mala, bejewelled, her face displaying a severe expression, her head topped with an elaborate crown, she is placed in front of a throne flanked by a pair of vases, curling snakes and the bull, within a border depicting bull heads interlinked with severed heads, framed and glazed.
From an old German private collection, acquired between the 1960s and 1995, published: Prasad Singh, Lalad, “Tantra, its mystic and scientific basis,” 1976, plate IX - Wear, traces of age
