Wood Carving from Nepal...
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€2,680.00*
Makara wood carving art Nepal temple art wood art
Makara
Fragment of a tympanum above one of the windows of the Ratnesvara temple on Sulima Square in Patan, 13th century. The makara, an aquatic hybrid creature with the scaled body and mouth of a crocodile and the trunk of an elephant, spits lotus leaves as a symbolic representation of water.
symbolic representation of water, as well as a warrior. The abundant lotus tendrils
The tail, richly decorated with lotus tendrils, reinforces the motif of water as a life-giving element.
Larger than the original, 25 cm x 62 cm, 2018
4.5 kg
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