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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION
A COPPER ALLOY FIGURE OF
HANUMAN
South India, Vijayanagar, Circa 16th
Century
a figure of Hanuman standing in a frontal pose his
hands forming anjali mudra (adoration), wearing
a short dhoti and numerous items of jewelry
including a looped girdle and a diadem, his long
tail curled up behind and touching the back of his
head
Height 10⅜ in. (26.3 cm.)
PROVENANCE
Sotheby’s New York, March 19, 2008, lot 282.
Peter Cochrane Collection.

$ 10,000-15,000

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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION
A COPPER ALLOY FIGURE OF KALI
915 SEATED ON SHIVA-SHAVA
Northern India, 16th/17th Century
the ferocious goddess, who symbolizes the
terrible aspect of Shiva’s sakti, depicted holding
a large, curved sword and a skull cup and seated
on a prostrate Shiva-Shava (Shava meaning
‘corpse’), wearing a patterned dhoti and jewelry
including a necklace of severed heads
Height 7½ in. (19 cm.)
PROVENANCE
Sotheby’s New York, March 19, 2008, lot 283.
Peter Cochrane Collection.
The concept of the image comes from classical
Hindu philosophy. Shiva, the supreme principle
and cosmic spirit, is as inactive as the ground
until the sakti, the supreme goddess, the cosmic
substance and active power, touches him
bringing him to life and thereby creating a new
cosmos. For examples of this subject see Philip
Rawson, Tantra, The Indian Cult of Ecstasy,
Thames and Hudson, 1973, figs. 17 and 18.
Also Stella Kramrisch, Manifestations of Shiva,
Philadelphia, 1981, pp.216 - 218, plates 47 & 48.

$ 10,000-15,000

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