Lot 36
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AN INDIAN BRONZE FIGURE OF THE GODDESS PARVATI
AN INDIAN BRONZE FIGURE OF THE GODDESS PARVATI
AN INDIAN BRONZE FIGURE OF THE GODDESS PARVATI
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AN INDIAN BRONZE FIGURE OF THE GODDESS PARVATI

20TH CENTURY

Details
AN INDIAN BRONZE FIGURE OF THE GODDESS PARVATI
20TH CENTURY
Standing in tribhanga pose
29 ½in. (75cm.) high; the base 10in. (25.4cm.) diameter
Provenance
The Collection of Dr. Hans Wolfgang Schumann (b. 1928).
Special notice
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Lot Essay

This beautiful Parvati figure was formerly in the collection of leading Buddha scholar and Indologist Hans Wolfgang Schumann, who has published extensively on Indian religiosity. He is the author of numerous reference books on India and Buddhism to which he had converted and was awarded the Rabindranath Thakur Culture Prize for Literature in India in 2000.

In Hindu tradition, Parvati and her husband Shiva are known as quarrelsome gods so it is no surprise that Parvati bore Karttikeya, the god of war and is also the mother of Ganesh, the elephant headed god whose own father quarrelled with him and cut off his head, replacing it with the first animal that was found - the elephant.

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