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Antique Java Style Majapahit Standing Bronze Kali or Mahakali Statue - 36cm/14"
Measurements Height 36cm/14"
An antique Java Style victory posed bronze Kali or Mahakali sculpture in the 13th century Majapahit style.
This unusual depiction of the Hindu Goddess Kali or Mahakali sees her stood upon a double lotus leaf pedestal.
She has eight arms that hold a variety of items such as noose, kalasha, dagger, bell and trident. She wears a richly bejewelled dohti and upavita. His face has a downcast gaze on the vanquished demon.
The Trident or Trishula, is a divine symbol and principle iconography of the Hindu religion. The three points of the trishula have various meanings and significance, and, common to the Hindu religion, have many stories behind them. They are commonly said to represent various trinities: creation, maintenance, and destruction; past, present, and future; body, mind and atman; dharma or dhamma (law and order), bliss/mutual enjoyment and emanation/created bodies; compassion, joy and love; spiritual, psychic and relative; happiness, comfort and boredom; pride, repute and egotism; clarity, knowledge and wisdom; heaven, mind and earth; soul, fire and earth; soul, passion and embodied-soul; logic, passion and faith; prayer, manifestation and sublime.
Upon her head she wears a decorative Javanese style tiara in front of her Kirita-Makuta or tall conical crown. This symbolises control over Positive and Negative attitudes. On her foreheads she has a third eye or urna.
She has an aquiline nose and elongated earlobes with large ear rings.
His hair is piled in a chignon decorated with a cockade and is discretely adorned with only a necklace, diamond shaped earrings, a Yajnopavita (Scared Brahmanical thread) and a single bangle on each wrist.
A beaded and flame rimmed aureole surrounds Kali symbolizing his divinity.
The sculpture has a wonderful sepia patina.
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