Antique Bronze Fertility Votive Lingam & Oni Sculpture Pair 19th century Mumbai
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A pair of early, large, and hard to find Bronze Votive Sculptures Shrines in the form of lingam and Oni male and female representations for Uma and Shiva ,Northern India, 19th century
Provenance: old Massachusetts collection,collected in Mumbai 1960s
Yo·ni in Hinduism is the vulva, especially as a symbol of divine procreative energy conventionally represented by a circular stone.
Lingam in Hinduism is a symbol of divine generative energy, especially a phallus or phallic object worshiped as a symbol of Shiva. Often depicted in conjunction with the female counterpart, Yoni.
Created as votives , the female Yoni is depicted as a stone and male Lingam as a naga, cobra snake with long tail
Both are meant to signify fertility and potency.
Tallest is 5.5 inches high
Such items have been used in ancient and modern cultures and are generally made in order to gain favor with supernatural forces. They might be used year after year and passed from one generation to the next. Sometimes they are painted before the start of the worship period. Today these bronzes have often been replaced by synthetic material and might be disposed of after the period of worship.
Rare survivors. Old original patina from appropriate age.
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