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拍品专文
Uma-Maheshvara represents the sacred embrace, alingana, between Lord Shiva and the Goddess Uma. Their union is principally metaphysical, symbolizing the merging of energy (Shakti) and consciousness (Shiva), and thus in their visual representation, they commonly appear physically connected sharing tender gazes with each other. Shiva extends his arm to caress Uma's rounded breast and holds a trishula and a lotus with his secondary arms, as Uma rests on Shiva's lap, their legs suspended in a parallel posture. They wear royal garb touting their exalted status with necklaces, armbands, waistbelts, and elaborate hairstyles which include a looped and braided jatamukuta on Shiva and a bun fashioned together by a beaded band on Uma.
Celestial and adorative figures surround them in an architectural framework with columns of elephants, leographs, and makaras, all who participate in a lyrical assembly accompanying these deities in their union. Their children Ganesha and Karttikeya appear in diminutive size to their sides. Here, their sacred union is an event, held within this corniced and columned setting, filled with an active celebratory congregation of family, animals, and celestial beings.
The elaborate decoration and twisted, rhythmic movement corresponds to styles of the eleventh century from Central India. A reddish stone of the same subject shows similarity in the buoyant gestures and arrangement of the figures (Sotheby's, New York, 20 March 2021, lot 362). Two eleventh-century Central Indian examples depict open petaled nimbi, one from a fragmentary head of Shiva (Bonhams, New York, 16 March 2021, lot 324) and a Vaikuntha (Christie's, New York, 15 March 2017). A Shiva who also wears curled locks that frame a matted forehead and pile into twisted tower of loops, a double-beaded collar, and cord-looped earrings is depicted in another Madhya Pradesh sandstone dated to the tenth century (Norton Simon Museum F.1975.14.7.S).
Celestial and adorative figures surround them in an architectural framework with columns of elephants, leographs, and makaras, all who participate in a lyrical assembly accompanying these deities in their union. Their children Ganesha and Karttikeya appear in diminutive size to their sides. Here, their sacred union is an event, held within this corniced and columned setting, filled with an active celebratory congregation of family, animals, and celestial beings.
The elaborate decoration and twisted, rhythmic movement corresponds to styles of the eleventh century from Central India. A reddish stone of the same subject shows similarity in the buoyant gestures and arrangement of the figures (Sotheby's, New York, 20 March 2021, lot 362). Two eleventh-century Central Indian examples depict open petaled nimbi, one from a fragmentary head of Shiva (Bonhams, New York, 16 March 2021, lot 324) and a Vaikuntha (Christie's, New York, 15 March 2017). A Shiva who also wears curled locks that frame a matted forehead and pile into twisted tower of loops, a double-beaded collar, and cord-looped earrings is depicted in another Madhya Pradesh sandstone dated to the tenth century (Norton Simon Museum F.1975.14.7.S).