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12. Shiva Shakti
Nepal
16th-17th c.
gilded copper
9 1/2 inches tall (9 3/4 including base)
Shiva Shakti
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This extremely complicated casting shows an esoteric form of the principal divine couple of Hinduism, Shiva and his consort. The base shows the individual vahana-s, or mounts of Shiva and Parvati/Durga, the bull and the lion, as well as a row of attendant deities.

This type of sculpture is typical of the tantric Hindu tradition in the Kathmandu valley, which produced a corpus of extremely complicated individual sculptures and ensembles.

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