TWO BRASS FIGURINES OF HINDU DEITIES
Possibly Kashmir or Himachal Pradesh, Northern India, 19th century

Comprising a larger figurine, cast in the round, presenting the Hindu Goddess Durga Mahishasuramardini (the Slayer of the Buffalo Demon Mahisha) on a stepped square pedestal, standing over the decapitated corpse of the buffalo, and pulling out the demon by the hair; and another smaller figurine with Vishnu, the God of Preservation and the Protector of Good, standing on a splayed stepped pedestal, holding his lower right hand in varada mudra (grant-wishing hand gesture), and a chakram (disc, quoit) in the upper right hand.

12.5cm and 8cm high respectively