
Enrica Medugno
Senior Sale Coordinator


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Provenance
Private collection, Germany.
The fearsome form of the Goddess Devi stands in the charnel ground where human bones are picked over by three jackals. She stands on the body of a white shava of corpse-like Shiva. Her attributes are in her four arms: a sword, a kapala (skull bowl), a lotus and a pair of scissors. A crown of coiled serpents adorns her head.
See V. Dehejia (ed.), Devi: the Great Goddess, Washington DC 1999, pp. 240-241, no. 16, for a depiction of this subject (Guler, 1745), and the discussion there. For another example (Mandi, 1840) see Sotheby's New York, Indian, Himalayan and Southeast Asian Works of Art, 16th March 2016, lot 856 (from the collection of Claus Virch).