A METAL SHRINE

Description:

North.India, late 19th cent.
H. 42 cm
The tall shrine with a central Devi as candlestick bearer standing in samapada on a raised pedestal placed on a larger rectangular throne set on four feet, cast with a pair of small standing female divinities and a pair of reclining bulls, both hands raised in front of her abdomen originally holding the candlestick supports, wearing sari, bejewelled, her face displaying a serene expression with almond-shaped eyes, her hair combed backwards, the arched shrine with a pair of ajour columns supporting the arch decorated with a central seated figurine of Garuda surrounded by a pair of female divinities and a pair of parrots flanking the central lotus bud
From an old German private collection, collected from the 1950s onwards - Traces of age, minor repairs