Nandi is the vehicle of Siva, the great “creator and destroyer” of Hinduism. Such images are traditionally displayed in front of a temple entrance.

Provenance: Acquired by a Scottish family in India in the nineteenth century, in whose possession it remained, in Bridge of Allen, from about 1900-2008

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