A TANJORE PAINTING OF SHIVA AND PARVATI ON NANDI Tanjore (Thanjavur), Tamil Nadu, South India, 19th century  Opaque pigments and gold on canvas, the vertical composition depicting a fully adorned and heavily bejewelled Shiva with his consort Parvati on the back of his bull, Nandi, sitting on a richly decorated palanquin with a polychrome parasol on top, to the sides of the bull two white-clad attendants agitating their flywhisks, at the top two winged angels with double trumpets enunciating the couple's arrival, against a cobalt blue ground, mounted, framed and glazed, 66cm x 50.5cm. For a similar painting, please see Christie's South Kensington, 12 June 2014, lot 148.