Large Antique East Indian Brass Hindu Altar Temple Statue Shrine Mandir 1880 Sold times of sunrise & sunset

times of sunrise & sunset in Paris

dating from 1756

The vase is raised on a circular foot with ground pontil below

passed through the same family of Russian descent since the early 1900's

Large Antique East Indian Brass Hindu Altar Temple Statue Shrine Mandir 1880 Sold times of sunrise & sunsetA good & large 19th century antique brass Hindu temple altar shrine, circa 1880. The shrine in two sections with a domed top and a turned & pointed finial, below is a shaped gallery with smaller corresponding finials at each corner. The base with four Prabhavali shaped arches supported by turned columns, surrounded with another gallery also mounted with finials, the rear of the shrine with a backplate with punch engraved decoration of a mandala. The