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- 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
- relevance
- rank 6.32756
- 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
- relevance
- rank 6.32756
- 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
- relevance
- rank 6.32756
- 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
- relevance
- rank 6.32756
- 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
- relevance
- rank 6.32756
- 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
- relevance
- rank 6.32756
- 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
- relevance
- rank 6.32756
- 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
- relevance
- rank 6.32756
- 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
- relevance
- rank 6.32756
- 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
- relevance
- rank 6.32756
- 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
- relevance
- rank 6.32756
- 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
- relevance
- rank 6.32756
- 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
- relevance
- rank 6.32756
- 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
- relevance
- rank 6.32756
- Title
- Vishnu
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Bengal
- Century
- 19th century?
- Object Creation Date
- 18th century
- Accession Number
- 1979/2.68
- Medium and Support
- bronze
- relevance
- rank 6.32756
- 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
- relevance
- rank 6.32756
- 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
- relevance
- rank 6.32756
- 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
- relevance
- rank 6.32756
- 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
- relevance
- rank 6.32756
- 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
- relevance
- rank 6.32756
- 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
- relevance
- rank 6.32756
- 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
- relevance
- rank 6.32756
- 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
- relevance
- rank 6.32756
- 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
- relevance
- rank 6.32756
- 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
- relevance
- rank 6.32756
- 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
- relevance
- rank 6.32756
- 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
- relevance
- rank 6.32756
- 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
- relevance
- rank 6.32756
- 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
- relevance
- rank 6.32756
- 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
- relevance
- rank 6.32756
- 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
- relevance
- rank 6.32756
- 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
- relevance
- rank 6.32756
- Title
- Hanuman
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Maharashtra
- Century
- 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- 19th century
- Accession Number
- 1976/2.54
- Medium and Support
- bronze
- relevance
- rank 6.32756
- 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
- relevance
- rank 6.32756
- 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
- relevance
- rank 6.32756
- 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
- relevance
- rank 6.32756
- 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
- relevance
- rank 6.32756
- 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
- relevance
- rank 6.32756
- 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
- relevance
- rank 6.32756
- 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
- relevance
- rank 6.32756
- 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
- relevance
- rank 6.32756
- Title
- Jina venerated by a monk and a royal devotee from a Digambara Jain manuscript
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Sirohi School
- Physical Description
- This painting is a rare depiction of the Jina’s first preaching. It is said that the speech of the Jina is like no other and that miracles occur upon hearing it. Here the Jina is depicted with four heads, representing the miraculous ability to see from all four directions at once. The golden-hued Jina and the monk who venerate a Jina are nude, identifying them as belonging to the Digambara (sky-clad) sect of Jainism.
- Century
- 18th century
- Object Creation Date
- 18th century
- Accession Number
- 1975/2.173
- Medium and Support
- ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
- relevance
- rank 6.25875
- Title
- Vishnu and Consorts
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Tamil Nadu
- Century
- 16th-18th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 16th century - 17th century
- Accession Number
- 1975/2.125
- Medium and Support
- brass
- relevance
- rank 6.25875
- Title
- Shiva
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Kerala Workshop
- Century
- 17th-18th century
- Object Creation Date
- 17th century - 18th century
- Accession Number
- 1978/2.77
- Medium and Support
- bronze
- relevance
- rank 6.25875
- Title
- Digambara Jain manuscript page: Jina and monk with Lakshmi-Narayana & Ardhanarishvara (fol. No. 42)
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Sirohi School
- Physical Description
- This work is painted in tones of red, green, dark blue, and orange/gold, against a light background. At the top is a sun with a many rays and a human face. Below this are two seated figures who are unclothed. They are seated on thrones decorated with colorful designs. One has reddish skin and is shown in profile, looking at the sun with hands raised. The other has orange skin and is seated in a lotus posiiton, facing front. Below them is a scene that shows two figures, a woman and a blue-skinned man, turned toward a half-man, half-woman figure who is seated on a tiger rug. These figures are dressed in colorful clothing and adorned with jewelry and hold various objects in their hands.
- Century
- 18th century
- Object Creation Date
- 18th century
- Accession Number
- 1975/2.166
- Medium and Support
- ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
- relevance
- rank 6.25875
- Title
- Persian poetry and proverbs anthology, manuscript leaf
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Afghanistan, Pakistan or India
- Century
- Late 18th century
- Object Creation Date
- late 18th century
- Accession Number
- 1987/1.195.10
- Medium and Support
- ink and color, with touches of gold leaf on thin, glazed paper
- relevance
- rank 6.25875
- Title
- Sutra Writings
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Tamil Nadu
- Century
- 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 19th century
- Accession Number
- 1997/1.176
- Medium and Support
- incised palm-leaf, darkened with charcoal dust
- relevance
- rank 6.25875
- Title
- Goddess Parvati with Son Ganesa at Her Feet
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Kerala Workshop
- Century
- 18th century
- Object Creation Date
- 18th century
- Accession Number
- 1981/2.57
- Medium and Support
- bronze
- relevance
- rank 6.25875
- Title
- Digambara Jain manuscript page: Jina and devotees
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Sirohi School
- Physical Description
- Multi-colored ink on paper. Reds and golds make up the primary focus colors and are accented by dark blues. Features five figures, two larger figures on the top half of the page and three smaller figures on the bottom. Scene of worship.
- Century
- 18th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 18th century
- Accession Number
- 1975/2.177
- Medium and Support
- ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
- relevance
- rank 6.25875
- Title
- Dancing Krishna holding butter-balls
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Tamil Nadu
- Physical Description
- small bronze figurine made by lost wax process. The child Krishna dances on one leg with his right one raised. He hold balls of butter in his hands, one outstretched to this side and the right one extended forward as if offering it to the viewer. He stands on a round lotus base placed on a square slab. He is naked, but is decorated with a vast assortment of jewelry. Necklaces that cross his chest and drop to his waist, decorated belts, shoulder pieces, rings, bracelets and earrings and elaborate decorations on his head fanning out from his ears and decorating his hair which is arranged in a flat chignon on the top of his head.
- Century
- 17th-18th century
- Object Creation Date
- 17th century - 18th century
- Accession Number
- 1976/2.42
- Medium and Support
- copper alloy with gilt
- relevance
- rank 6.25875