DAKSHINAKALI: THE HINDU GODDESS KALI STANDING... Lot 108

DAKSHINAKALI: THE HINDU GODDESS KALI STANDING ON SHIVA'S CORPSE Bengal School, Eastern India, second half 19th century Oil on canvas, the vertical-format composition depicting the four-armed Dakshinakali, the most popular form of the Hindu Goddess Kali worshipped in Bengal and Eastern Indian provinces, standing on Shiva's bare corpse on a tiger skin floor spread, surrounded by the severed heads of an antagonist demon rolling around the ground and forming a long garland worn around her chest and body, holding an eyed sickle in her upper left hand, symbolising the Devi's ability to see and eradicate all evils, set within red, ochre and blue rules, mounted, glazed and framed, 59cm x 49cm including the frame.