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A FINELY DECORATED BRONZE ‘NANDI’ LINGAM DRIPPING VESSEL, INDIA, 17TH-18TH CENTURY
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2024年10月18日 开拍
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A FINELY DECORATED BRONZE ‘NANDI’ LINGAM DRIPPING VESSEL, INDIA, 17TH-18TH CENTURY

The pierced cattle head extending to a slender neck, fitted with a belled collar, and opening to a horn-form vessel fitted with a gently flaring mouth, finely decorated to the body with bands of geometric and foliate motifs, all below a lappet border.

Provenance: From the collection of Paul F. Walter. A private collection in the United States, acquired from the above via the local auction market. Paul F. Walter (1935-2017) was born in 1935 to Fred and Anna Walter, co-founders of the New Jersey industrial instruments firm Thermo Electric. Anna Walter, a benefactor of the Morgan Library and Museum and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, instilled in her son a love of culture that would lead him to study Art History at Oberlin College, in Ohio, and Columbia University. He began to collect in the 1960s, starting with prints by Whistler and moving on to the Aesthetic Movement and the Arts & Crafts in Britain, as well as the arts of the Indian subcontinent and modern American painting. He was Trustee of the Museum of Modern Art from 1992 to 2006, and a benefactor to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Cooper-Hewitt Design Museum, the Morgan Library and Museum, the Brooklyn Museum, the Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Condition: Good condition with wear and casting irregularities. Few nicks, tiny dents, minor losses, abrasions, and rubbing. The bronze with a rich, naturally grown, solid patina.

Weight: 369.2 g
Dimensions: Height 14.2 cm

Vessels such as the present lot are used in rituals where they are suspended with the cow head pointing down over a lingam, a phallus-shaped representation of Shiva. It would have been filled with milk which would then drip, drop by drop, from the cow’s mouth over the lingam. Lingams are regarded as ‘hot’ and require regular cooling as an act of worship. The constant dripping from such a vessel is described as Abhisheka, an act of reverence for Shiva.

Literature comparison:
Compare two related holy water sprinklers with lota bowls and cow-head spouts used for anointing the images of gods, illustrated by Robert F. Bussabarger in The Everyday Art of India, New York, 1968, p. 80.

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