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- Title
- Two Figures
- Artist
- India, Central India
- Century
- 18th-19th century
- Object Creation Date
- 18th century - 19th century
- Accession Number
- 1977/2.75
- Medium and Support
- bronze
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Folk Deva
- Artist
- India, Central India
- Century
- 18th-19th century
- Object Creation Date
- 18th century - 19th century
- Accession Number
- 1977/2.76
- Medium and Support
- bronze
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Equestrian Folk Figure
- Artist
- India, Central India
- Century
- 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- 19th century
- Accession Number
- 1979/2.45
- Medium and Support
- bronze
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Phulkari Shawl with Large Diamond Patterns
- Artist
- India, Eastern Punjab
- Century
- 19th-20th century
- Object Creation Date
- late 19th century - mid 20th century
- Accession Number
- 2005/2.4
- Medium and Support
- homespun cotton cloth with silk embroidery
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- The birth of the Kauravas from a Mahabharata series
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Gujarat
- Physical Description
- A scene takes place in a red box, lined with black and red diamond and triangle designs for borders. In the center, a woman sites with a child in her lap. She wears a spotted dress, her hair up, and a nose ring and bindi. The child reaches one hand and places it atop her head, and the other down towards her own upward hands. Surrounding them are seven other figures. One kneels before them, offering his hands up, and another fans the woman from behind. The remaining five figures seem to play together in front of the throne on which the woman and child sit.
- Century
- 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- 19th century
- Accession Number
- 1969/2.19
- Medium and Support
- ink and opaque watercolor on paper
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Textile fragment
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Kashmir
- Physical Description
- This is a rectangular fragment of a larger garment, probably a shawl, woven from very fine woolen threads with a white/natural ground and alternating rows of intricately detailed 'boteh' (paisley) patterns in red and blue.
- Century
- 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- early 19th century
- Accession Number
- 1930.42
- Medium and Support
- wool
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Durga Copper Plate
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Kulu, Himachal Pradesh
- Physical Description
- An eight armed goddess sits astride a tiger with uplifted tail. She carries a noose, punch dagger, shankha, and trident in her right hands and a bow, ring-like discus, arrow and shield in her left arms. She wears a long garland of either large rudraksa or heads around her heck along with other necklaces and pendants. She sits with legs pendant wearing a long skirt. Behind the figure a Om symbol with the end of the letter twirled around it twice and the word Shri written in Devanagari script. Below the figure a grid of letters forms a sacred diagram. The lines forming the grid all end in trident forms. Each square of the grid houses a different letter in nagari.
- Century
- 19th-20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 19th century - 20th century
- Accession Number
- 1975/2.146
- Medium and Support
- copper
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Hanuman/Garuda (dual image) (small folk bronze)
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Maharashtra
- Century
- 18th-19th century
- Object Creation Date
- 18th century - 19th century
- Accession Number
- 1975/2.104
- Medium and Support
- bronze
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- 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
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- 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 0.00000
- Title
- Mahâbhârata series: Women greet a horseman
- Artist
- India, Maharashtra, Paithan School
- Century
- 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- early 19th century - mid 19th century
- Accession Number
- 1970/2.166
- Medium and Support
- ink and opaque watercolor on paper
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- 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 0.00000
- Title
- Mahâbhârata series: Warriors in conference
- Artist
- India, Maharashtra, Paithan School
- Physical Description
- Large image painted with bold blues, reds, greens and yellows. Illustrates seven figures; three on the left half and four on the right. Several of the figures are pinching some sort of food substance. The figures that are closest to the right and left edges of the image also are holding weapons.
- Century
- 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- early 19th century - mid 19th century
- Accession Number
- 1975/2.151
- Medium and Support
- ink and opaque watercolor on paper
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Equestrian Figure
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, North or Central India
- Century
- 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- 19th century
- Accession Number
- 1979/2.77
- Medium and Support
- bronze
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Vishnu with Two Attendants
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, North or Central India
- Century
- 20th-century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 19th century - 20th century
- Accession Number
- 1975/2.129
- Medium and Support
- bronze
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Mahishasuramardini with eight arms
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, North or Central India
- Century
- 18th-19th century
- Object Creation Date
- 18th century - 19th century
- Accession Number
- 1976/2.50
- Medium and Support
- bronze
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Bhairava and Devi
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, North or Central India
- Century
- 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- 19th century
- Accession Number
- 1977/2.51
- Medium and Support
- bronze
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Standing Village Deity (small folk bronze)
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, North or Central India
- Century
- 18th-19th century
- Object Creation Date
- 18th century - 19th century
- Accession Number
- 1977/2.79
- Medium and Support
- bronze
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Male and female figures
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, North or Central India
- Century
- 18th-19th century
- Object Creation Date
- 18th century - 19th century
- Accession Number
- 1977/2.81
- Medium and Support
- bronze
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Deva
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, North or Central India
- Century
- 18th-19th century
- Object Creation Date
- 18th century - 19th century
- Accession Number
- 1977/2.105
- Medium and Support
- bronze
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Folk Shiva
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, North or Central India
- Century
- 18th-19th century
- Object Creation Date
- 18th century - 19th century
- Accession Number
- 1977/2.106
- Medium and Support
- bronze
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Folk Figure of Female Devotee Making an Offering
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, North or Central India
- Century
- 18th-19th century
- Object Creation Date
- 18th century - 19th century
- Accession Number
- 1978/2.140
- Medium and Support
- bronze
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Bull
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, North or Central India
- Century
- 18th-19th century
- Object Creation Date
- 18th century - 19th century
- Accession Number
- 1978/2.71
- Medium and Support
- bronze
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Horse (small folk bronze)
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, North or Central India
- Century
- 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- 19th century
- Accession Number
- 1978/2.81
- Medium and Support
- bronze
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Vishnu
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, North or Central India
- Century
- 18th-19th century
- Object Creation Date
- 18th century - 19th century
- Accession Number
- 1979/2.48
- Medium and Support
- bronze
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Vishnu, seated (worn from centuries of handling)
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Northeastern India
- Century
- 19th-20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 19th century - 20th century
- Accession Number
- 1975/2.131
- Medium and Support
- copper
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Folk Durga on a Lion
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Northwest India
- Century
- 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- 19th century
- Accession Number
- 1976/2.38
- Medium and Support
- bronze
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Mahishasuramardini
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Northwest India
- Century
- 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- 19th century
- Accession Number
- 1977/2.74
- Medium and Support
- bronze
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Shiva, seated (small folk bronze)
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Northwest India
- Century
- 18th-19th century
- Object Creation Date
- 18th century - 19th century
- Accession Number
- 1977/2.77
- Medium and Support
- bronze
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Village Hero
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Northwest India
- Century
- 18th-19th century
- Object Creation Date
- 18th century - 19th century
- Accession Number
- 1977/2.78
- Medium and Support
- bronze
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Shiva and Parvati (small folk bronze)
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Northwest India
- Century
- 18th-19th century
- Object Creation Date
- 18th century - 19th century
- Accession Number
- 1977/2.80
- Medium and Support
- bronze
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Standing votive figure
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Northwest India
- Century
- 18th-19th century
- Object Creation Date
- 18th century - 19th century
- Accession Number
- 1977/2.82
- Medium and Support
- bronze
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Standing female votive figure
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Northwest India
- Century
- 18th-19th century
- Object Creation Date
- 18th century - 19th century
- Accession Number
- 1977/2.83
- Medium and Support
- bronze
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Standing Female Votive , carrying two lotuses
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Northwest India
- Century
- 18th-19th century
- Object Creation Date
- 18th century - 19th century
- Accession Number
- 1977/2.84
- Medium and Support
- bronze
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Oriya manuscript (unidentified), leaf: A Meeting in the Forest (pair with 1997/2.40)
- Artist
- India, Orissa
- Physical Description
- The inherently small scale of a manuscript page requires a simplified style with figures and plant forms against a plain background. This scene represents the meeting of a man and a woman (accompanied by attendants) in the forest.
- Century
- 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- 19th century
- Accession Number
- 1985/2.144
- Medium and Support
- charcoal dust and washes of color on incised palm leaf
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Oriya manuscript (unidentified), folio: A Courtier Visits an Ascetic. (Images and text on both sides; pair with 1985/2.144)
- Artist
- India, Orissa
- Physical Description
- In this scene, a young prince, seen at right in his bejeweled splendor, offers reverence to an ascetic. The sage, nearly naked and with matted hair, sits on an animal skin. His right hand is in the gesture of exposition, suggesting that he is preaching to his courtly audience.
- Century
- 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- 19th century
- Accession Number
- 1997/2.40
- Medium and Support
- charcoal dust and washes of color on incised palm leaf
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Drawing for a Ramayana series: Rama, Lakshmana and Sugriva in conference (fol. 204)
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Punjab Hills
- Physical Description
- Rama and Lakshmana sit under a tree with the King of the monkeys, surrounded by monkeys. Some monkeys have taken to flight in the upper corners of the drawing. With a few deft strokes the artist conveys the swiftly changing emotions of the moment, as the monkeys respond with astonishment, empathy, and action to Rama’s pleas.
- Century
- late 18th century - early 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- late 18th century - early 19th century
- Accession Number
- 1975/2.149
- Medium and Support
- ink on paper
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Gita Govinda Series: Radha and Krishna in room with two sakhis in conversation (preliminary sketch)
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Punjab Hills
- Century
- early 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- early 19th century
- Accession Number
- 1985/2.143
- Medium and Support
- ink on paper
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Radha Showing Krishna his Reflection
- Artist
- India, Punjab Hills, Kangra School
- Century
- Early 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- early 19th century
- Accession Number
- 1981/2.163
- Medium and Support
- ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- 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
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- 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 0.00000
- 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
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Multi-armed Kali on a corpse (small folk bronze)
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Rajasthan
- Century
- 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- 19th century
- Accession Number
- 1978/2.125
- Medium and Support
- bronze
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Plate Inscribed with Flying Figure of Hanuman Holding a Flag, Mace and Spear
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Rajasthan
- Physical Description
- Hanuman is depicted with a human body and a monkey head. The image is incised on the plate and his body is entirely textured with characters in the devanagari script. Often merely the letter ‘r’ designating the god Rama with whom he is associated. He is in a striding posture and there are a number of sections of text scattered around the image. At his feet is a human figure walking in the opposite direction. He holds a double flag consisting of two triangular shapes facing him in his left hand along with a thin club. One appears to emanating from his mouth? His right hand is lifted with an arrow above it and his tail curves behind him. There is also a small altar depicting the two feet of Rama in the area between his outstretched leg and the end of a scarf wrapped around his body.
- Century
- 18th-19th century
- Object Creation Date
- 18th century - 19th century
- Accession Number
- 1978/2.89
- Medium and Support
- copper
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Lakshmi lustrated by elephants (Gaja Lakshmi (Goddess))
- Artist
- India, Rajasthan, Bundi School
- Physical Description
- The white elephants, which draw the eye into the image, face toward the center leading the viewer to Lakshmi who is the central figure in the frame. The image is bordered by a red colored frame. And below the figures, in the background is a dark banded representing a pond.
- Century
- 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- 19th century
- Accession Number
- 2001/2.133
- Medium and Support
- ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- A celebration of the rains
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Rajasthan, Kotah School
- Physical Description
- Fresh greens for the foliage and dark blue clouds sprinkled with lightning set the rain celebration scene. Court ladies have gathered on the lawn, and some swing under a blossoming tree, while the raja and a woman watch the exciement below from a balcony of his white palace.
- Century
- 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- early 19th century
- Accession Number
- 1964/2.114
- Medium and Support
- Ink, opaque watercolor, silver, and gold on paper
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Two men on a camel
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Rajasthan, Marwar, Jodhpur
- Physical Description
- Three main figures (two men and the camel they are riding) are brought to the foreground because of the contrast between their light colors against the stark green hill. The hill dominates the background leaving only a little bit of blue sky visible in the top corners. Underneath the main figures a secondary white dog and rabbit are also prominent.
- Century
- 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- mid 19th century
- Accession Number
- 1980/2.246
- Medium and Support
- ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Mukha-Linga
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, South India
- Physical Description
- This phallic representation of the god Shiva appears as a columnar head placed on a base with two rounded moldings on top of a series of square ones. His neck is fully cylindrical and the face is modeled on that cylinder. The eyes are wide open and a bow shaped eyebrow curves over them. He has a flared nose and luxuriant moustache over a narrow but full lips and a short ball like chin. A ‘U’ shaped element consisting of lines and a pearl motif probably represents his beard, perhaps held up in a tight net. His forehead is decorated with three raise lines that go straight across and his crown is basically flat over his hear decorated with a bunch of peak forms in the center with a finial surmounting the whole. His ears fan out almost like handles to a jar and are decorated with stylized arabesques. A five-headed snake hood rises behind the head and has a rib down its center and scale motives incised towards the bottom an ‘S’ shapes t denote the cobra ‘eyes’ to each side.
- Century
- 18th-19th century
- Object Creation Date
- 19th century
- Accession Number
- 1981/2.52A
- Medium and Support
- bronze
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Mukha-Linga
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, South India
- Physical Description
- This phallic representation of the god Shiva appears as a columnar head placed on a base with two rounded moldings on top of a series of square ones. His neck is fully cylindrical and the face is modeled on that cylinder. The eyes are wide open and a bow shaped eyebrow curves over them. He has a flared nose and luxuriant moustache over a narrow but full lips and a short ball like chin. A ‘U’ shaped element consisting of lines and a pearl motif probably represents his beard, perhaps held up in a tight net. His forehead is decorated with three raise lines that go straight across and his crown is basically flat over his hear decorated with a bunch of peak forms in the center with a finial surmounting the whole. His ears fan out almost like handles to a jar and are decorated with stylized arabesques. A five-headed snake hood rises behind the head and has a rib down its center and scale motives incised towards the bottom an ‘S’ shapes t denote the cobra ‘eyes’ to each side.
- Century
- 18th-19th century
- Object Creation Date
- 18th century - 19th century
- Accession Number
- 1981/2.52B
- Medium and Support
- bronze
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Mukha-Linga, Cobra head
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, South India
- Physical Description
- This phallic representation of the god Shiva appears as a columnar head placed on a base with two rounded moldings on top of a series of square ones. His neck is fully cylindrical and the face is modeled on that cylinder. The eyes are wide open and a bow shaped eyebrow curves over them. He has a flared nose and luxuriant moustache over a narrow but full lips and a short ball like chin. A ‘U’ shaped element consisting of lines and a pearl motif probably represents his beard, perhaps held up in a tight net. His forehead is decorated with three raise lines that go straight across and his crown is basically flat over his hear decorated with a bunch of peak forms in the center with a finial surmounting the whole. His ears fan out almost like handles to a jar and are decorated with stylized arabesques. A five-headed snake hood rises behind the head and has a rib down its center and scale motives incised towards the bottom an ‘S’ shapes t denote the cobra ‘eyes’ to each side.
- Century
- 18th-19th century
- Object Creation Date
- 18th century - 19th century
- Accession Number
- 1981/2.52C
- Medium and Support
- bronze
- relevance
- rank 0.00000