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A RARE IVORY FIGURE <strong>OF</strong> PARVATI<br />
POSSIBLY MADURAI, TAMIL NADU, SOUTH <strong>INDIA</strong>, 17TH/18TH<br />
CENTURY<br />
On cruciform plinth, depicted standing, her face with bulging almond eyes, the<br />
crescent moon and the sun in her parted hair which is arranged in a long braid,<br />
her ears pierced with large circular earrings, richly attired and wearing intricate<br />
and heavy jewellery, holding a lotus in her right hand, her left arm near her body<br />
9Ωin. (24cm.) high<br />
£6,000-8,000 $8,600-11,000<br />
€7,500-10,000<br />
A 17th century carving of Nayak Tirumala and one of his wives, closely<br />
related in style to the present piece, is in the Srirangam temple museum<br />
(Mattiebelle Gittinger, Master Dyers to the World, Washington, 1982, cat.107,<br />
p.119). Another ivory fgure of Parvati together with one of Shiva, attributed to<br />
Madurai in Tamil Nadu and dated 18th century, are now kept at the Virginia<br />
Museum of Fine Arts (81.192.1-2).<br />
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A LARGE IVORY ROSEWATER BOTTLE<br />
SOUTH <strong>INDIA</strong>, 19TH CENTURY<br />
87 (reverse)<br />
Of cylindrical form, on circular foot with plain base, decorated with<br />
repeating dotted roundel motifs forming geometric patterns, inlaid with red<br />
composition, the bulbous tiered stopper with similar decoration<br />
10¡in. (26.4cm.) high<br />
£1,800-2,200 $2,600-3,100<br />
€2,300-2,700<br />
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AN IVORY GROUP DEPICTING DURGA SLAYING THE<br />
ELEPHANT-DEMON (KARINDRASURA)<br />
BEHRAMPUR, EASTERN <strong>INDIA</strong>, CIRCA 1850<br />
Carved and assembled as a miniature shrine, the goddess rides her lionvehicle,<br />
she wears her attributes and a peacock crown, her lion is atop the<br />
elephant-demon and on a raised platform, deities and ascetics around perched<br />
on raising lotuses, above them a fnely carved tympanum with Durga in battle,<br />
stylised boteh fowers around, within a wooden frame<br />
10 Ωin. (26.5cm.) high<br />
£6,000-8,000 $8,600-11,000<br />
€7,500-10,000<br />
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A very closely related carved ivory group of Durga Mahishasuramardini which<br />
is attributed to Behrampur, circa 1850 is in the collection of the Victoria and<br />
Albert Museum (inv. 1070-1852; Neeta Das and Rosie Llewellyn-Jones (ed.),<br />
Murshidabad: Forgotten Capital of Bengal, Mumbai, 2013, no.5, p.109).<br />
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