AN IMPORTANT GILT-BRONZE GROUP OF SHIVA AND PARVATI, NEPAL, 17th ct., on base. Seated in lalitasana, his eighteen arms radiating around his body, the hands holding the prescribed attributes, wearing tiger-skirt, scarf draped around his shoulders, its streamers encircling the arms with the finials curling up, a mala of severed heads, bejewelled, his face displaying a severe expression with almond-shaped eyes below arched eyebrows, vertical third eye adorning his forehead, hooked nose, moustache framing his mouth, elongated earlobes set with ear-rings in the form of snakes, his hair combed in a chignon topped with a ratna, decorated with a half-moon emblem and skull, on his left leg is seated Parvati in lalitasana, her right hand lowered in varadamudra while the left is raised in abhayamudra, wearing sari, scarf, bejewelled, her face displaying a serene expression with almond-shaped eyes, her hair combed in a chignon and secured with a tiara, with inventory number BN 21 - Minor wear to gilding, very slightly chipped