Lot 502 Dα

A Bihar black stone stele of Uma Maheshvara. Northeastern India. 11th/12th century

The four-armed Shiva sits in lalitasana on a double lotus throne, his pendant leg resting on the bull Nandi, his left arm placed around his wife Uma sitting on his thigh and holding a lotus flower, her pendant leg resting on a lion, Shiva's secondary hands holding trisula and kapala, the otherwise undecorated prabha with two vidyadhara.
Height 64 cm