lalita distemper on cloth nepal

The red four-armed goddess supported by the recumbent multi-headed Shiva within a shrine, a torana above with Garuda, nagas and mounted makara supported by golden pillars, with Shiva, Ganesha and Vishnu seated on vahana within a snow-capped mountain landscape, garland-bearing vidyadhara above with the sun and moon, and below a gallery of Hindu gods including Ganesha, Shiva and Vishnu, all bordered with a multi-coloured floral pattern.

Hugo E. Kreijger, Kathmandu Valley Painting, The Jucker Collection, Boston, 1999, p. 74, no. 24.

Compare the floral border with a Vishnu shrine paubha dated 1772; see Pal, 1978, pl. 120.