Large Antique East Indian Brass Hindu Altar Temple Statue Shrine Mandir 1880 Sold passed through the same family

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

one of the best-known early 17th-century paintings in northern Italy

The painting is housed in the original ebonized frame with gilded Fleur de Lis decoration

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

Large Antique East Indian Brass Hindu Altar Temple Statue Shrine Mandir 1880 Sold passed through the same familyA 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