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STELE EN GRES REPRESENTANT SHIVA
ET BRAHMANI
INDE CENTRALE, XEME SIECLE

Les deux divinités parées de bijoux sont
représentées debout et esquissent une danse.
La déesse aux trois têtes Brahmani et le créateur
Shiva tiennent des attributs ; accidents.
Hauteur : 72.5 cm. (28Ω in.) ; socle

€30,000-40,000 $33,000-44,000
£26,000-34,000

PROVENANCE

Private Italian collection (1993-2008).
Private Belgian collection since 2008.

LITERATURE

Marcel Nies Oriental Art, Buddharaja, The King-
Buddha, Antwerp, 2008, p. 18-19.

Art Loss Register Certifcate, reference
S00008987

A SANDSTONE STELE DEPICTING SHIVA AND
BRAHMANI
CENTRAL INDIA, 10TH CENTURY

印度中部 十世紀 砂岩濕婆與提毗立像碑

來源：1993至2008年為意大利私人舊藏
2008年始為比利時私人珍藏

出版：Marcel Nies Oriental Art, Buddharaja, The
King-Buddha 王者佛, Antwerp, 2008, p. 18-19.

This sandstone section once belonged to a larger
lintel depicting the Seven Mother Goddesses
(Saptamatrikas) fanked by Shiva and Ganesha.
Each of the Goddesses embodies the energy of the
male gods and they bear their weapons. Their order
is not fxed but almost always starts with Brahmani
the consort of Brahma, like the presented lintel
confrms. She is multiple-headed and carries the
vase containing the elixir of immortality and a
rosary.

To her side dances Shiva as Vinadhara or Lord
of the Music holding the stringed instrument.
These lintels could be placed above a doorway
of any sectarian temple. This is a fne example of
the Central Indian medieval sculpture school as
both fgures still show a dynamic composition and
are well balanced. For a complete example see,
Vishaka N. Desai and Darielle Mason (ed.), ‘Gods,
Guardians and Lovers, Temple Sculptures from
North-India A.D. 700 – 1200’, The Asia Society,
New York, 1993, plate 62.

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