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Yakshi bearing flowers (railing pillar from a stupa); India, Madhya Pradesh, Mathura

Title: Yakshi bearing flowers (railing pillar from a stupa)
Artist: India, Madhya Pradesh, Mathura
Century: 3rd century
Object Creation Date: late 2nd century - early 3rd century
Accession Number: 1968/2.73
Medium and Support: mottled red sandstone
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Shiva, in his form as ekamukhalinga; Artist Unknown, India, Maharashtra

Title: Shiva, in his form as ekamukhalinga
Artist: Artist Unknown, India, Maharashtra
Physical Description: Possibly used to cover a linga, a phallic representation of the god Shiva or representing a linga decorated with a face of Shiva, we find a stylized face on a tall, thick cylindrical neck. He is depicted with large, wide open eyes consisting of a double line above and below with a heavy eyebrows above them. A third eye is between them in a vertical direction. He has thick lips and wears a luxurious moustache. A decorated band fits tightly under his chin and may represent a decorated beard of necklaces. At the bottom of the band is a stylized linga on a base, looking like a cross on a line. His ears sport snake earrings and his hair is worn combed back from the forehead in wide matted bands.
Century: 18th century
Object Creation Date: 18th century
Accession Number: 1977/2.46
Medium and Support: bronze
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Bilvamangala series; India, Rajasthan, Mewar School; After

Title: Bilvamangala series
Artist: India, Rajasthan, Mewar School
Century: 18th century
Object Creation Date: circa 1725
Accession Number: 1983/2.113
Medium and Support: ink and color on paper
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Krishna in double vitarka mudra; Artist Unknown, India, Bengal

Title: Krishna in double vitarka mudra
Artist: Artist Unknown, India, Bengal
Century: 17th-18th century
Object Creation Date: 17th century - 18th century
Accession Number: 1976/2.56
Medium and Support: bronze
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Equestrian figure carrying a lance in his left hand; Artist Unknown, India, Rajasthan

Title: Equestrian figure carrying a lance in his left hand
Artist: Artist Unknown, India, Rajasthan
Century: 17th century
Object Creation Date: 17th century
Accession Number: 1976/2.65
Medium and Support: bronze
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Venugopala (Krishna playing the flute); Artist Unknown, India, Rajasthan

Title: Venugopala (Krishna playing the flute)
Artist: Artist Unknown, India, Rajasthan
Century: 17th century
Object Creation Date: 17th century
Accession Number: 1978/2.90
Medium and Support: bronze
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Ambika; Artist Unknown, India, Gujarat

Title: Ambika
Artist: Artist Unknown, India, Gujarat
Physical Description: Ambika sits above her stylized lion mount with a long body and with its tail curled to add support to the seated figure above. She sits with one leg pendant. She has four arms, the back two hold stylized mango clusters and her front right hand holds a large mango. Her left-hand cups a child seated on her left knee. Another child stands on the base to her right. The backing takes on a throne-like form, but she appears to float in front of it, the square-ish base is pierced and the arch of the back is surmounted by an auspicious pot form with leaves creating a volute shape to either side. The sculpture is solid brass, but the eyes and an ornament in her headdress are inlayed with silver.
Century: 17th century
Object Creation Date: 17th century
Accession Number: 1975/2.114
Medium and Support: brass with silver inlay
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Palm Leaf from an Unidentified Manuscript with Devanagiri (?) script; Artist Unknown, India, Gujarat

Title: Palm Leaf from an Unidentified Manuscript with Devanagiri (?) script
Artist: Artist Unknown, India, Gujarat
Century: 17th century?
Object Creation Date: 17th century
Accession Number: 1997/2.41
Medium and Support: incised palm-leaf darkened with coal dust
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Bhairava; Artist Unknown, India, Maharashtra

Title: Bhairava
Artist: Artist Unknown, India, Maharashtra
Century: 16th-18th century
Object Creation Date: 16th century - 17th century
Accession Number: 1976/2.44
Medium and Support: bronze
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Warriors going into battle from a Mahabharata series; India, Maharashtra, Paithan School

Title: Warriors going into battle from a Mahabharata series
Artist: India, Maharashtra, Paithan School
Physical Description: Three warriors march forward, taking up nearly the entire frame. Blue soldiers carring weapons and shields bring up the front and rear. They appear to move through a stylized tree landscape.
Century: 19th century
Object Creation Date: early 19th century - mid 19th century
Accession Number: 1975/2.150
Medium and Support: ink and opaque watercolor on paper
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Panchakhyana Series, page 28: Court Scene; India, Rajasthan, Mewar School

Title: Panchakhyana Series, page 28: Court Scene
Artist: India, Rajasthan, Mewar School
Century: 18th century
Object Creation Date: circa 1725-1740
Accession Number: 1997/2.42
Medium and Support: ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
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Phulkari (woman's head covering) with peacock designs; Artist Unknown, India, Punjab

Title: Phulkari (woman's head covering) with peacock designs
Artist: Artist Unknown, India, Punjab
Physical Description: This is a red cloth covered with geometric patterns and abstract forms in the shape of peacocks. The designs and peacocks are multicolored and depicted in a repetitive format with the birds arranged in five columns and nine rows.
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: 1st half of 20th century
Accession Number: 2003/2.57
Medium and Support: white, green, magenta, and indigo silk floss embroidery on madder-dyed cotton
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Goddess or female devotee holding a lotus in her right hand (small folk bronze); Artist Unknown, India, Rajasthan

Title: Goddess or female devotee holding a lotus in her right hand (small folk bronze)
Artist: Artist Unknown, India, Rajasthan
Century: 18th century
Object Creation Date: 18th century
Accession Number: 1977/2.85
Medium and Support: bronze
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Celebratory couple, fragment of railing from a Buddhist Stupa; India, Madhya Pradesh, Mathura

Title: Celebratory couple, fragment of railing from a Buddhist Stupa
Artist: India, Madhya Pradesh, Mathura
Century: 2nd-3rd century
Object Creation Date: 2nd century - 3rd century
Accession Number: 1996/2.33
Medium and Support: mottled red sandstone
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Hanuman (small folk bronze); Artist Unknown, India, Maharashtra

Title: Hanuman (small folk bronze)
Artist: Artist Unknown, India, Maharashtra
Century: 18th century
Object Creation Date: 18th century
Accession Number: 1977/2.92
Medium and Support: lead
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Bilvamangala series, folio 30: Krishna and Balarama; India, Rajasthan, Mewar School; Attributed to

Title: Bilvamangala series, folio 30: Krishna and Balarama
Artist: India, Rajasthan, Mewar School
Century: late 17th - early 18th century
Object Creation Date: circa 1700
Accession Number: 1983/2.114
Medium and Support: ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
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Vishnu; Artist Unknown, India, Bengal; Attributed to

Title: Vishnu
Artist: Artist Unknown, India, Bengal
Century: 19th century?
Object Creation Date: 18th century
Accession Number: 1979/2.68
Medium and Support: bronze
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Durga as slayer of the Buffalo Demon (Mahishasuramardini); Artist Unknown, India, Rajasthan

Title: Durga as slayer of the Buffalo Demon (Mahishasuramardini)
Artist: Artist Unknown, India, Rajasthan
Century: 16th century
Object Creation Date: 16th century
Accession Number: 1976/2.48
Medium and Support: bronze
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Shiva Shrine (one of three); Artist Unknown, India, Rajasthan

Title: Shiva Shrine (one of three)
Artist: Artist Unknown, India, Rajasthan
Century: 16th-18th century
Object Creation Date: 16th century - 18th century
Accession Number: 1979/2.47
Medium and Support: bronze
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Malli shrine, dated VS 1528 [1471 A.D.]; Artist Unknown, India, Gujarat

Title: Malli shrine, dated VS 1528 [1471 A.D.]
Artist: Artist Unknown, India, Gujarat
Physical Description: The jina Malli sits in the lotus position on an inlayed cushion on a tiered throne. Seated with his hands folded in a gesture of meditation, he is surrounded by a number of figures representing other jinas, attendants and demigods. In the center in front of the throne sits the goddess Ambika with a child on her lap. On the first tier of the throne sit two figures that may represent donors. On the next left are nine mounds representing the nine planets [navagraha], five to his right and four to his left. At the base of his seat are two stylized lions and this is flanked by a male and female demigod. On the arch surrounding the figure at his level a standing jina figure is to each side and cauri bearer is on the outside of each of them. At his shoulders, the cross bars of the throne back end in stylized makara heads with jewels hanging from their mouths. A seated jina adorns the arch to each side of his head and elephants surmount them with an umbrella over his head with a dancing figure atop it. The whole is surmounted by an auspicious lota or pot. Diamond shaped copper and silver pieces adorn the pillow and parts of the throne back and silver inlay highlight his eyes and chest jewel.
Century: 15th century
Object Creation Date: 1471
Accession Number: 1975/2.121
Medium and Support: brass with copper and silver inlay
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Bhairava: Shiva as Lord of the Cremation Grounds; Artist Unknown, India, Karnataka

Title: Bhairava: Shiva as Lord of the Cremation Grounds
Artist: Artist Unknown, India, Karnataka
Physical Description: Shiva as Bhairava stands against a plain pointed arch supported by pilasters with a kirtimukha or face of glory at the top. He stands in a trihanga pose, with his hip thrust to his right and wears platform sandals. He originally has four arms, the front two of which are broken away. His back two arms hold a decorated trident and a drum. He would have held a sword in one hand and a kapala, a cup made out of a scull and a hanging severed head in the other. He is naked, but wears much of jewelry including belts with pendant elements, anklets, armlets, bracelets, necklaces, a band just under his breasts and large circular earrings. He also wears a decorated sacred thread over his left shoulder. His has an elaborate coiffure in curls around the top of his head with a large topknot to one side. His face is badly damaged. Emaciated hungry ghosts attend him, the one to his right dancing with his hands raised above his head with a pot between his legs. The ghost who is on his left stands behind a dog, whose head has broken away. The ghost and the dog would have been playing with the absent severed head, adding to the ghoulish nature of the image.
Century: 12th - 13th century
Object Creation Date: 12th century -13th century
Accession Number: 2001/2.131
Medium and Support: stone
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Standing Hanuman, Upright figure of monkey God with hands in anjali position; Artist Unknown, India, Maharashtra

Title: Standing Hanuman, Upright figure of monkey God with hands in anjali position
Artist: Artist Unknown, India, Maharashtra
Century: 16th-18th century
Object Creation Date: 16th century - 17th century
Accession Number: 1976/2.51
Medium and Support: bronze
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Ragamala series: Varadi ragini; India, Rajasthan, Amber School

Title: Ragamala series: Varadi ragini
Artist: India, Rajasthan, Amber School
Century: late 17th century
Object Creation Date: 1680-1700
Accession Number: 1964/2.110
Medium and Support: ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
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Rajasthan Figure of Goddess Druga with Her right Foot on the Buffalo, her lower left arm holding the demon as it emerges from the decapitated buffalo; Artist Unknown, India, Rajasthan

Title: Rajasthan Figure of Goddess Druga with Her right Foot on the Buffalo, her lower left arm holding the demon as it emerges from the decapitated buffalo
Artist: Artist Unknown, India, Rajasthan
Century: 18th century
Object Creation Date: 18th century
Accession Number: 1978/2.72
Medium and Support: bronze
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Kalpasutra manuscript, leaf: A Jaina monk (fol. no. 2r); Artist Unknown, India, Gujarat

Title: Kalpasutra manuscript, leaf: A Jaina monk (fol. no. 2r)
Artist: Artist Unknown, India, Gujarat
Physical Description: Leaf from a Kalpasutra manuscript with calligraphic text. Font size varies, and in the center of the leaf text wraps around a blank box of parchment with a red dot in the center. To the left of this main text block is a colorful illustration of an enthroned figure in a dotted robe flanked by devotees. Surrounding him are various auspicious symbols.
Century: 15th century
Object Creation Date: 15th century
Accession Number: 1980/2.247
Medium and Support: ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
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Ambika, mother Goddess holding a child on her left leg with feet resting on a lion; Artist Unknown, India, Gujarat

Title: Ambika, mother Goddess holding a child on her left leg with feet resting on a lion
Artist: Artist Unknown, India, Gujarat
Century: 16th century
Object Creation Date: 16th century
Accession Number: 1976/2.58
Medium and Support: bronze
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Lotus Relief, Fragment from the crosspiece of a stupa railing in Mathura; India, Uttar Pradesh, Mathura

Title: Lotus Relief, Fragment from the crosspiece of a stupa railing in Mathura
Artist: India, Uttar Pradesh, Mathura
Physical Description: The red mottled sandstone of this lotus relief is unique to the Sikri quarry, just outside of Mathura.
Century: 3rd century
Object Creation Date: 3rd century
Accession Number: 1963/1.90
Medium and Support: red sandstone
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Nagaraja (Serpent king); India, Madhya Pradesh, Mathura

Title: Nagaraja (Serpent king)
Artist: India, Madhya Pradesh, Mathura
Century: 2nd century
Object Creation Date: circa 2nd century
Accession Number: 2002/2.350
Medium and Support: mottled red sandstone
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Eight-armed Durga; Artist Unknown, India, Maharashtra

Title: Eight-armed Durga
Artist: Artist Unknown, India, Maharashtra
Century: 18th century
Object Creation Date: 18th century
Accession Number: 1978/2.87
Medium and Support: bronze
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Râmâyana series, modern work in an 18th century style; India, Rajasthan, Mewar School; After

Title: Râmâyana series, modern work in an 18th century style
Artist: India, Rajasthan, Mewar School
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: circa 1975
Accession Number: 1983/2.107
Medium and Support: ink and opaque watercolor on paper
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The Goddess Saraswati; India, Bengal, Kalighat School

Title: The Goddess Saraswati
Artist: India, Bengal, Kalighat School
Century: Late 19th-Early 20th century
Object Creation Date: late 19th century - early 20th century
Accession Number: 1992/1.147
Medium and Support: ink and color on paper
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Equestrian Figure: armed village hero on horseback holding a shield in his left hand and a sword in his right hand; Artist Unknown, India, Rajasthan

Title: Equestrian Figure: armed village hero on horseback holding a shield in his left hand and a sword in his right hand
Artist: Artist Unknown, India, Rajasthan
Century: 17th-18th century
Object Creation Date: 17th century - 18th century
Accession Number: 1976/2.69
Medium and Support: bronze
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Shiva Shrine (one of three) (small folk bronze); Artist Unknown, India, Rajasthan

Title: Shiva Shrine (one of three) (small folk bronze)
Artist: Artist Unknown, India, Rajasthan
Century: 16th-18th century
Object Creation Date: 16th century - 18th century
Accession Number: 1979/2.54
Medium and Support: bronze
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Vishnu with two attendants; Artist Unknown, India, Kashmir

Title: Vishnu with two attendants
Artist: Artist Unknown, India, Kashmir
Physical Description: Vishnu stands with a slight sway to his body with his right hip thrust out, the tribhangha of “thrice bent pose.” He has four hands to carry his attributes, his front two hold a lotus bud and a conch. The back two hang down and rather than carry his two weapons are placed on personified figures of them. At is right is the personified club and on his left his discus. He wears a diaphanous lower cloth that is so sheer, it appears almost invisible, only the folds of the garment are articulated. He wears a long garland down almost to his feet and a sacred thread to his waist. He also wears various pieces of jewelry, including armlets, large earrings and an elaborate crown. The whole is quite worn due to the way the image has been handled by devotees, who have touched it and applied various substances to it. His eyes had been inlayed with silver to add a certain realism to the piece.
Century: 9th century
Object Creation Date: 9th century
Accession Number: 1970/2.146
Medium and Support: bronze with silver inlay
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Yaksha; India, Madhya Pradesh, Mathura

Title: Yaksha
Artist: India, Madhya Pradesh, Mathura
Century: 2nd century
Object Creation Date: 2nd century
Accession Number: 1979/1.147
Medium and Support: red sandstone
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Hanuman; Artist Unknown, India, Maharashtra

Title: Hanuman
Artist: Artist Unknown, India, Maharashtra
Century: 19th century
Object Creation Date: 19th century
Accession Number: 1976/2.54
Medium and Support: bronze
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Lady meeting her lover from the Rasamanjari of Bhanudatta series; India, Rajasthan, Mewar School; Attributed to

Title: Lady meeting her lover from the Rasamanjari of Bhanudatta series
Artist: India, Rajasthan, Mewar School
Physical Description: Brightly colored painting with three primary registers. The uppermost and smallest register contains a poem. The lower two are larger and similar in size. The bottommost depicts stairs, architectural structures, snakes, and flowering plants. Above, the middle register frames a seated man under a canopy-like architectural form, who reaches out to grasp the wrist of a woman. Behind her is a flowering tree, and and the far right, and open door.
Century: 17th century
Object Creation Date: circa 1630
Accession Number: 1980/2.242
Medium and Support: Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
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Portrait, said to be of the Painter Nainsukh; India, Seu-Nainsukh School

Title: Portrait, said to be of the Painter Nainsukh
Artist: India, Seu-Nainsukh School
Century: 18th century
Object Creation Date: 18th century
Accession Number: 1997/2.38
Medium and Support: ink and opaque watercolor on paper
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Uma-Maheshvara, a seated Shiva and Parvati (Uma); Artist Unknown, India, Bengal

Title: Uma-Maheshvara, a seated Shiva and Parvati (Uma)
Artist: Artist Unknown, India, Bengal
Physical Description: Shiva sits with his consort on a double lotus pedestal. He has six arms, his right three are in varada mudra [a giving gesture], holds a rosary and an arrow. His left arms cup his consorts left breast and hold a lotus flower and a bow. He sits in royal ease, with one leg pendant. He wears bracelets, armlets, necklaces, earrings, and a sacred thread that stretches form his left shoulder down past his waist. On his head he wears an elaborate jatamukuta, a crown interlaced with his matted locks. Parvati sits upon his knee with one leg tucked under her and the other pendant. She is also adorned with jewelry, but wears a more modest diadem at the front of her head.
Century: 12th century
Object Creation Date: 12th century
Accession Number: 1964/2.85
Medium and Support: bronze
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Vajri; Artist Unknown, India, Rajasthan

Title: Vajri
Artist: Artist Unknown, India, Rajasthan
Century: 18th-19th century
Object Creation Date: 18th century - 19th century
Accession Number: 1981/2.54
Medium and Support: bronze
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Equestrian Figure; Artist Unknown, India, Rajasthan

Title: Equestrian Figure
Artist: Artist Unknown, India, Rajasthan
Century: 18th century
Object Creation Date: 18th century
Accession Number: 1978/2.86
Medium and Support: bronze
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Head of a crowned figure (from Gujarat?); Artist Unknown, India, Gujarat

Title: Head of a crowned figure (from Gujarat?)
Artist: Artist Unknown, India, Gujarat
Object Creation Date: n.d.
Accession Number: 1981/2.151
Medium and Support: terracotta
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Parshvanatha shrine (fragmentary condition); Artist Unknown, India, Gujarat

Title: Parshvanatha shrine (fragmentary condition)
Artist: Artist Unknown, India, Gujarat
Century: 16th century
Object Creation Date: 16th century
Accession Number: 1978/2.103
Medium and Support: bronze
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Folk Rama; Artist Unknown, India, Maharashtra

Title: Folk Rama
Artist: Artist Unknown, India, Maharashtra
Century: 19th-20th century
Object Creation Date: 19th century - 20th century
Accession Number: 1976/2.33
Medium and Support: bronze
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Virabhadra; Artist Unknown, India, Maharashtra

Title: Virabhadra
Artist: Artist Unknown, India, Maharashtra
Century: 18th century
Object Creation Date: 18th century
Accession Number: 1979/2.60
Medium and Support: bronze
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Râmâyana series, folio 204 from the "Balakanda"; India, Rajasthan, Mewar School; After

Title: Râmâyana series, folio 204 from the "Balakanda"
Artist: India, Rajasthan, Mewar School
Century: 18th century
Object Creation Date: circa 1725
Accession Number: 1983/2.109
Medium and Support: ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
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Nayika series; Demon frightens a woman in the forest; India, Punjab Hills, Kangra?

Title: Nayika series; Demon frightens a woman in the forest
Artist: India, Punjab Hills, Kangra?
Century: 19th century
Object Creation Date: 19th century
Accession Number: 1985/2.142
Medium and Support: ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
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Four-armed Vishnu; Artist Unknown, India, Rajasthan

Title: Four-armed Vishnu
Artist: Artist Unknown, India, Rajasthan
Physical Description: Vishnu stands with his legs apart holding his four attributes in his hands. Reading in clockwise direction from his right front hand he holds: his club, discus, conch and lotus, here a rather flat object cupped in his palm. His back two arms are extremely short. The figure is encircled with a decorated arch with a line of beads and triangular shaped openings around them. A stylized sun and moon are to either side of Vishnu’s head. He wears a variety of simple, lumpy jewelry at his feet are a horse to his right and a bull or cow to his left and between them are three rings lying flat on the base. At the front of the base are seven stylized horses, identifying this as a combination figure: Vishnu and the sun god Surya, whose chariot is pulled by seven horses.
Century: 18th-19th century
Object Creation Date: 18th century - 19th century
Accession Number: 1977/2.49
Medium and Support: bronze
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Baramasa series: The Eleventh Month; India, Rajasthan, Bundi School

Title: Baramasa series: The Eleventh Month
Artist: India, Rajasthan, Bundi School
Century: mid 18th century
Object Creation Date: mid 18th century
Accession Number: 1985/2.141
Medium and Support: ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
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Lion attacking a quadruped (architectural fragment); India, Madhya Pradesh, Mathura

Title: Lion attacking a quadruped (architectural fragment)
Artist: India, Madhya Pradesh, Mathura
Physical Description: A terracotta block, probably originally part of a frieze around a building, with molded and incised design.
Century: 3rd-4th century
Object Creation Date: 3rd century - 4th century
Accession Number: 1994/1.77
Medium and Support: terracotta
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