I did this bowl as a celebration of multiculturalism in the wake of the London tragedies. The figures are based on apsaras on a relief in an Angkor Wat temple. Apsaras are minor goddesses in Hinduism who 'marry' celestial musicians. They were born during the Indian creation myth of 'Churning the Ocean' for the ambrosia of immortality. I don't know why, but the iconography seemed right to me.
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