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PROPERTY FROM A IMPORTANT
SPANISH PRIVATE COLLECTION
n 238
IMPORTANTE STATUE D'UMA EN
BRONZE
INDE DU SUD, EPOQUE VIJAYANAGARA,
XIIIEME-XIVEME SIECLE
Elle est représentée debout en tribhanga. Sa main
droite est en katakahastamudra, la gauche en
lolahastamudra. Elle est parée de bijoux et vêtue
d'un sari. L'expression de son visage est sereine, ses
yeux étirés en amande, ses cheveux coifés en un
haut chignon.
Hauteur: 67 cm. (26¡ in.)
€80,000-120,000 US$89,000-130,000
£70,000-100,000

PROVENANCE:
Acquired by the father of the present owner on
25 November 1967, Sundaram Works of Art, New
Delhi.
AN IMPORTANT BRONZE FIGURE OF UMA
SOUTH INDIA, VIJAYANAGARA PERIOD,
13TH-14TH CENTURY
印度南部 毗奢耶那伽罗時期 十三/十四世紀
銅烏瑪立像
來源：西班牙重要私人珍藏，現藏家父親於
1967年11月25日購自新德里古董商Sundaram
Works of Art

Parvati or Uma, as she is addressed in Tamil
Nadu, is the consort of Shiva and always portrayed
as a slender and voluptuous young woman. The
great goddess is associated with fertility, love
and devotion. In fact in Tamil poetry of the bhakti
saints Uma’s exquisite beauty is lauded through
metaphors of the beauties found in nature. Her
right hand is raised in katakahastamudra and
probably originally holding a lotus fower while
the other rests gracefully at her side. She wears a
simple diaphanous, though long, sari secured with
a belt and is heavily bejewelled. For another early
Vijayanagara period Uma example see, P. Pal, ‘Asian
Art at the Norton Simon Museum’, vol. 1, Art from
the Indian Subcontinent, Yale University Press,
New Haven and London 2003, pl. 170 D.

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