Worship of the goddess Devi
Painter: anonymous
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Medium: brush
Description: The goddess Devi sits on a lotus flower in the center of the scene against a blue sky, behind her two elephants facing each other sprinkling her with coiled trunks, on either side of her a servant with a trident, the left servant is dark, the right one light colored, both have four arms, in front of the right servant a child crawling toward the goddess in a gold robe; below on the green meadow a company of servants sit two by two around an altar, again two four-armed servants in different colors, but now the lighter one on the left and the darker one on the right, in a pond in the foreground elephants playing among lotus flowers; on the right a royally dressed company comes into view with hands folded in prayer before them, a prince being preceded by two children and followed by two women. Around the scene a narrow border in red; light damage.
