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SOUTH INDIA, POST-VIJAYANAGAR PERIOD, CIRCA 17TH CENTURY
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A BRONZE FIGURE OF KALI
SOUTH INDIA, POST-VIJAYANAGAR PERIOD, CIRCA 17TH CENTURY
Cast on square base, standing in tribangha on a lotiform base, holding her attributes, with protruding tongue and fangs, wearing a tiara, jewels and necklaces, with long diaphanous dhoti falling in undulating folds secured with a sash around the waist, a cakra behind her head
18in. (46cm.) high
SOUTH INDIA, POST-VIJAYANAGAR PERIOD, CIRCA 17TH CENTURY
Cast on square base, standing in tribangha on a lotiform base, holding her attributes, with protruding tongue and fangs, wearing a tiara, jewels and necklaces, with long diaphanous dhoti falling in undulating folds secured with a sash around the waist, a cakra behind her head
18in. (46cm.) high
Provenance
Private UK collection since the early 1980s
Literature
Bernard Soulier, Tantra, Erotic Figures in Indian Art, Geneva, 1982, p.8
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Romain Pingannaud