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Ugratara standing on prostrate Shiva in the charnel ground Pahari, Kangra or Mandi, circa 1820-30 image 1
Ugratara standing on prostrate Shiva in the charnel ground Pahari, Kangra or Mandi, circa 1820-30 image 2
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Ugratara standing on prostrate Shiva in the charnel ground
Pahari, Kangra or Mandi, circa 1820-30

12 November 2024, 11:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

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Ugratara standing on prostrate Shiva in the charnel ground
Pahari, Kangra or Mandi, circa 1820-30

gouache and gold on paper, in a painted oval, cornerpieces with floral motifs on a gold ground, blue floral inner border, pink outer border
240 x 167 mm. (sight)

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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).

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