Karnataka (South India)
brass alloy
This fearsome tiger is finely incised with a striped pelt and wears a collar, indicating its status as a ritual mount of Durga. Its head shows rounded ears, alert, almost human-like eyes, arched brows, and a protruding tongue.
The tiger is the vehicle of, and sacred to, the Hindu goddess, Durga. From a certain perspective she is India’s Mother Nature, for she is the deification of Energy. Her consort, Shiva, sometimes evoked as Shambo, wears a tiger skin to indicate that he is beyond the bounds of the natural world.
Size (cms): 13.3(H) x 14(W) x 5.7(D)
Size (inches): 5(H) x 5.5(W) x 2(D)
