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The Ten Mahavidya (Great Wisdom) Goddesses
Jaipur, circa 1800-30

25 October 2021, 11:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £3,187.50 inc. premium

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The Ten Mahavidya (Great Wisdom) Goddesses
Jaipur, circa 1800-30

gouache and gold on paper, the composition comprising an upper rectangular scene, and nine smaller scenes, each with identifying inscription in nagari script in black ink, yellow and red outer borders
280 x 195 mm.

Footnotes

The Ten Mahavidya (Great Wisdom) Goddesses, which were said to have emerged as manifestations of the wrath of the goddess Sati, are as follows: Kali, Tara, Shodashi, Bhuvaneshvari, Bhairavi, Chinamasta ('She whose head is severed'), Dhumavati, Bagalamukhi, Matangi and Kamala. For a Bengali lithograph of the subject and discussion, see I. Rammos, Tantra: Enlightenment to Revolution, London 2020, p. 204, fig. 153.


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