Add.Or.959-988 30 mica paintings depicting deities of South India, including an incomplete set of the incarnations of Vishnu. By a Trichinopoly artist ...
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Add.Or.959-988 30 mica paintings depicting deities of South India, including an incomplete set of the incarnations of Vishnu. By a Trichinopoly artist, c.1890. Originally mounted on paper with inscriptions in English and Tamil. Some of the paintings had become separated from their inscriptio...
Madurai deity with sword, club and distinctive head-dress, perhaps Madurai-vira or Ayyanar
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Madura deity with sword, club and distinctive headdress, perhaps Maduraivira or Ayyanar. Inscribed in English: ‘Madurei Veeran’; in Tamil: ‘maturaiviran.’