We at The Luxe Café got you up close with Rosa Lladro when the brand launched the porcelain statue of goddess Saraswati, having launched their India collection much earlier in 2002. Well, the Spanish brand’s India collection now has another heavenly addition to it: the Porcelain image of Lord Shiva. Lladró is one of the leading names in the world of high porcelain. Limited to 720 pieces, the statue portrays Lord Shiva wearing a string of Rudraksha beads, holding a gilded Trishul and a wooden dumroo and seated on a base with a ‘lingam’ painted with real gold lustre. Along with this masterpiece for 2016, by mid-2017 Lladró intends to launch a porcelain retrospective of the Gita Saar, a significant part of the Bhagavad Gita. Raul Rubio, the sculptor who earlier created the porcelain figurines of Ganesha and Ram Sita, came to India, in 2012, on a four-city tour of Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata and Bengaluru. As part of this tour, he visited the temples of Radha Krishna and Ram Sita situated in Mathura and Vrindavan, to draw inspiration for his sculptures. Sculptors at Lladró also refer to mythological books and browse the Internet to perfect the designs of the deities, along with taking help from priests and astrologers to ensure perfection.
