Bronze Shiva Mukhalinga - 18th Century Small Boxes Condition: Wear consistent with age

Condition: Wear consistent with age and use including surface marks and patina

This tansu chest retains the original iron hardware and urushi lacquer finish

This patchwork of colours and textures gives you a real sense of age

Its gently weathered surface

Seat Size: 40

Bronze Shiva Mukhalinga - 18th Century Small Boxes Condition: Wear consistent with ageThis excellent 18th century bronze head of Shiva is a mukhalinga, literally translating to 'lingam with a face'. Lingams are phallic eggs and the non representational form of Shiva, one of the three most prominent gods of Hinduism. Shiva is The Destroyer who demolishes in order for the world to be created anew. Originally mukhalingas were carved stone lingam, however in the 18th century, they came to be covers for lingam stones, believed to preserve