Lot 70
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THE GODDESS KALI
THE GODDESS KALI

PROBABLY MANDI, NORTH INDIA, CIRCA 1820

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THE GODDESS KALI
PROBABLY MANDI, NORTH INDIA, CIRCA 1820
Opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, depicted in a classical stance after her killing spree, her tongue struck out, wearing a belt of hands and a necklace of skulls, brandishing a sword, holding a decapitated head, a foot over Siva's body, in an octagonal medallion, the spandrels with gold scrolling foliate tendrils, in black borders with scrollwork, with wide pink margins with further depictions of her emanations, a cusped cartouches above and below with a vulture and a rat, the reverse applied with an old panel with 11ll. of black devanagari script, mounted
12 ½ x 9 ½in. (31.8 x 24.2cm.)

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Lot Essay

The distinctive elaborate margins of this work with cusped cartouches containing attendants of Kali and associated animals are similar to those found on a painting of Raja Isvari Sen of Mandi worshipping Shiva attributed to artist Sajnu, (W.G. Archer, Indian Paintings from the Punjab Hills, London, 1973, fig. 46, p. 275).

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