Umasahita-Candrasekharamurti copper alloy Eastern India, Orissa

Both figures stand in a frontal position, Shiva displays the crescent moon in his headdress, a third eye on his forehead, his hair is arranged in three long braids, he is four-armed, wearing an elaborate belt, jewelry and an upavita formed by a cobra. Parvati wears a heavily patterned dhoti secured by an elaborate girdle, a pointed crown, jewelry and long, billowing scarves, she holds a lotus in her left hand. Both figures have inlaid eyes and an inscription around the lower register of the lotus base.

Peter Cochrane Collection