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A RARE WOOD CARVING OF WOMAN GIVING BIRTH, TAMIL NADU, 18TH CENTURY
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2024年12月17日 开拍
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A RARE WOOD CARVING OF WOMAN GIVING BIRTH, TAMIL NADU, 18TH CENTURY

India. Finely carved with a woman seated on a plinth, her right hand clutching her braided hair tightly as she delivers a child into the welcoming hands of the midwife positioned at her feet. She is accompanied by two attendants who are both adorned in jewelry and dressed simply in a dhoti, their chests bare, one holding a staff as she protectively looks over the vulnerable mother, who is nude with elaborately braided and embellished hair and richly adorned with jewelry, all below a central kirtimukha.

Provenance: From a Belgian private estate.
Condition: Good condition with expected old wear and natural imperfections. Obvious losses, chips, cracks, nicks, rubbing, mounting apertures, and signs of weathering. Remnants of varnish.

Weight: 10.97 kg (incl. stand)
Dimensions: Height 49.7 cm (excl. stand), 52.5 cm (incl. stand)

With an associated metal stand. (2)

The present panel depicts the moment of childbirth from the womb of a mother. Her left hand and arm are extended downward, and both her feet are turned outward with the knees thrown out sideways. The postures seen in the images of Salabhanjika and the mothers in delivery, with one hand holding the branch of a tree, here clasped around her braided hair, and the other hand held downward or rested on the waist, akin to the dancing postures frequently found on the panels in the passageways of gopuras.

Literature comparison:
Compare a related wood carving of birth as an image of creation, South India, 18th century, illustrated by Ajit Mookerjee and Madhu Khanna in The Tantric Way: Art, Science, Ritual, 1989, p. 171. Compare a related wood carving of childbirth in squatting position holding onto women on each side, South India, illustrated in Md. Rifat Rahman et al. in The Process of Childbirth of the Malo Women in Bangladesh: Birth Ritual Based on Archaeological Evidence and Ethnographic Observation, Contemporary Voice of Dalit, 2022, p. 9.

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