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A RARE POLYCHROME WOOD FIGURE OF A SNAKE GODDESS, NAGINI, TAMIL NADU, 18TH CENTURY
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2025年04月11日 开拍
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South India. Superbly carved, the deity standing in tribhanga atop a tiered lotus pedestal, the graceful figure of the goddess is pinched at the waist and adorned with elaborate beaded jewelry. Her left arm lingers in lolahasta mudra while the right is raised the chest. Dressed in a dhoti secured by an elaborate lappet girdle, the face with wide eyes under arched brows and full lips forming a warm smile, flanked by ears with pendeloque earrings, the braided hair falling down the back, and the head crowned by a karanda mukata, of piled rings diminishing in size and culminating in a lotus bud.Provenance: From the private collection of Fran?oise Leroy-Laveissere, acquired in the 1960s-1980s during her tenure as an Asian Art expert at H?tel Drouot, Paris.Condition: Extensive wear, obvious losses, flaking, chips, nicks, scratches, signs of weathering and erosion, and natural imperfections. Remnants of pigment. Old repairs and touchups.Weight: 5,426 g (incl. stand)Dimensions: Height 102 cm (excl. stand), 104 cm (incl. stand)Mounted on a wood stand. (2)Serpent worship enjoys widespread popularity in southern India. It is especially the cobra which is held sacred. Upper caste communities consider it a sin to kill it and believe that the man who does so will be stricken with all kinds of misfortunes. The great popularity of this cult, in the south, is testified by the snake slabs or Nagakal, which are usually found, sometimes, in great numbers, at the entrance of a town or village. Groups of such stones may be seen in a corner of the courtyard of a temple, either Hindu or Jain, near a tank or under a sacred tree. They are mostly due to childless wives who make a vow to install a snake-stone if they are blessed with an offspring (see a limestone nagakal from Tamil Nadu, dated 6th century, in the Victoria and Albert Museum, accession number IM.309-1913). Another example of serpent worship in South India are images of Naga and Nagini as part of a bas-relief representing the Descent of the Ganges or the Arjuna's Penance, in Mahabalipuram, Tamil Nadu.

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