Antique Bronze Temple Vessel

Antique Bronze Temple VesselA Shivite temple bronze that is meant to contain water to be poured over a Linga. Normally the container is mounted on a round base. Some say this is used during summer to keep the deity, Linga, cool. Museum quality in good condition Size: ex private collection

The band is a chisel split shank

This unusual antique Shiva Mukhalinga sculpture from India with a very smooth worn patina due to veneration displays a pleasing hair arrangement seen on the back of the sculpture

Carved and turned from a single piece of wood this bowl originated in the foothills of the Himalayas

this stool has what I refer to as a spontaneous and unrehearsed design

with the upper crossbar representing the sky and the lower one the earth

000 prints in America and Australia

Most wooden objects were carved from a single piece of wood and none were created by power tools

Museum quality in good condition

Size:12 “ diameter x 12” tall

The stone looks like basalt with a very heavy patina and worn smooth by many hands touching it over the centuries

Conan Brooks

The body of Nandi