A mid 1900’s Tamil Nadu temple statue, beguiles and entices as the Goddess Parvati in one of the most popular traditional depiction. Intricately and beautifully rendered by an able artist. The goddess has a sensuous youthfulness that permeated into a lifelike bronze. Her waist is slender and her breasts full. The height and a breadth of her celestial status is indicated in her magnificent royal headpiece that pushes forth towards the zenith. Her posture and stance is open almost vulnerable, but imbued in this openness is the vital power of a great yogini whose has partaken in both the deepest meditations and the most ecstatic forms of the deep tantras. This exceptional bronze is in excellent condition.