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NANDI FESTIVAL HEAD
KERALA
20
TH
CENTURY
Painted Wood
49 in (124 cm) high
$ 1,355 ‒ 2,705
Rs 1,00,000 ‒ 2,00,000
PROVENANCE
The Guild Art Gallery, Mumbai
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TIGER VAHANA
Karnataka (South India), Circa early 20
th
century
Wood, traces of Polychrome
Height: 33 in (72.6 cm)
Width: 11.5 in (25.3 cm)
Depth: 7.5 in (16.5 cm)
A charming Tiger Vahana with excellent patina and extensive
polychroming. The tiger has wide bulging eyes and an open mouth
with large exposed teeth and a long protruding tongue. The
muscular torso is adorned by a collar with a pendant. The tiger is the
vehicle of, and sacred to, the Hindu goddess, Durga. Her consort,
Shiva, sometimes evoked as Shambo, wears a tiger skin to indicate
that he is beyond the bounds of the natural world.
$ 545 ‒ 815
Rs 40,000 ‒ 60,000
PUBLISHED
J P Waghorne, “Vahanas: Conveyors of the Gods,”
Marg: Living Wood
, Bombay:
Marg Publications, 1992, pp. 15‒28
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