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- Title
- Female Buddhist Deity?
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, China
- Century
- 14th-15th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1350-1450
- Accession Number
- 1961/2.54
- Medium and Support
- wall painting (fragment): ink and color on plaster
- Primary Keywords
- buddhism
- dragons
- flames
- goddesses
- mural painting
- swords
- Title
- Miniature altar: Standing Buddha in abhaya-vara mudra, flanked by 2 bodhisattvas
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, China
- Century
- 6th century
- Object Creation Date
- early 6th century
- Accession Number
- 1961/2.79
- Medium and Support
- bronze with traces of gilding on wooden stand
- Primary Keywords
- bodhisattva
- buddhas
- buddhism
- flames
- miniature (size attribute)
- Title
- Bodhisattva, attendant figure from a larger Buddha shrine
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, China
- Object Creation Date
- 618-907
- Accession Number
- 1961/2.81
- Medium and Support
- gilt bronze
- Primary Keywords
- altarpieces
- bodhisattva
- buddhism
- flames
- lotus
- miniature (size attribute)
- Title
- Buddha, seated, from Tongguan, with mandorla
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, China
- Century
- 4th century
- Object Creation Date
- 4th century
- Accession Number
- 1964/1.90
- Medium and Support
- bronze
- Primary Keywords
- buddha
- buddhism
- flames
- miniature (size attribute)
- Title
- Standing Buddha (or possibly Maitreya) in abhaya mudra, with flask in left hand
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, China
- Century
- 4th century
- Object Creation Date
- 4th century
- Accession Number
- 1964/1.91
- Medium and Support
- bronze
- Primary Keywords
- buddhism
- flames
- flask (bottle)
- lotus
- mandorla
- Title
- Buddha, standing on a table-like pedestal, with a flame mandorla
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, China
- Century
- 4th century
- Object Creation Date
- 4th century
- Accession Number
- 1964/1.92
- Medium and Support
- cast and incised bronze
- Primary Keywords
- buddhism
- flames
- mandorla
- miniature (size attribute)
- Title
- Buddha, seated in the padmasana pose, in dhyana mudra, with mandorla
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, China
- Physical Description
- Small gilt bronze seated Buddha with Indian and Central Asian characteristics, including the pedestal he is seated on, folds of his robe, and the incised flames in the body halo encompassing him.
- Century
- 5th century
- Object Creation Date
- 433-466
- Accession Number
- 1964/2.94
- Medium and Support
- gilt bronze
- Primary Keywords
- buddha
- buddhism
- flames
- halo
- miniature (size attribute)
- mudra
- sitting
- Title
- Buddha, seated, with mandorla and dais; inscription
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, China
- Century
- 6th century
- Object Creation Date
- 515
- Accession Number
- 1964/2.96
- Medium and Support
- bronze
- Primary Keywords
- buddha
- buddhism
- flames
- inscriptions
- miniature (size attribute)
- Title
- Tsuba (sword guard) with incised flame design
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Nabeshima ware, Japan
- Physical Description
- This small, flat metal piece has a quartrefoil shape. Two holes in the middle. Flame-like incision all over the piece. Silver is applied around the center hole.
- Century
- Late 16th-Early 17th century
- Object Creation Date
- late 16th century - early 17th century
- Accession Number
- 1966/1.101
- Medium and Support
- Shakudô (copper-gold alloy)
- Primary Keywords
- flames
- hilt
- sword
- Title
- Lycurgus Consulting the Pythia
- Artist
- Eugène Delacroix
- Artist Life Dates
- 1798-1863
- Century
- 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1840
- Accession Number
- 1968/2.75
- Medium and Support
- oil on canvas
- Primary Keywords
- flames
- males, human
- mythology
- oracles
- sheep
- snake
- snakes
- Title
- Scene from the life of the Buddha: Buddha triumphs over the fire snake at the Fire Temple of Uruvilva Kasyapa (architectural fragment)
- Artist
- Artist Unknown,Gandhara (ancient Pakistan and Afghanistan)
- Physical Description
- A fragment of a stone slab, originally a facing on the drum of a small stupa, carved with a narrative scene. In this relief, he is converting devotees of the fire god Agni, the three ascetic Kasyapa brothers and their disciples. In this narrative, the Buddha asked to spend the night in the fire temple of Uruvilva Kasyapa. The temple’s fire god worshipers thought the fearsome fire serpent that dwelled within the temple would vanquish the Buddha. Instead, the fiery radiance of the meditating Buddha overwhelmed the serpent, who crawled into the Buddha’s alms bowl; the defeated snake appears in this sculpture below the Buddha. Meanwhile, the dazzling radiance the Buddha emits has been mistaken for flames and a fire brigade using ladders and pots of water has been formed to put out the fire, as can be seen here. Seated in the posture and gesture of meditation, the Buddha’s calm presence is in contrast to the action unfolding around him. The three Kasyapa brothers, with their beards and matted hair, are at the bottom directing it all – two are on the right and the other is seated at the far left.
- Century
- 3rd century
- Object Creation Date
- 200-232
- Accession Number
- 1972/2.41
- Medium and Support
- grey schist
- Primary Keywords
- architectural
- buddha
- buddhism
- flames
- fragment
- gandhara
- ladders
- snakes
- stupas
- Title
- Digambara Jain manuscript page: Jina venerated by a monk, layman, and cobras
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Sirohi School
- Physical Description
- A naked Jina sits on a throne with a naked monk to his left offering praise. A devotee sits in a lotus pond that is surrounded by flames, yet his face appears serene ans he holds his rosary. Two cobras appear next to the flames, with a three in the background.
- Century
- 18th century
- Object Creation Date
- 18th century
- Accession Number
- 1975/2.171
- Medium and Support
- ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
- Primary Keywords
- cobras
- deity
- fire
- flames
- folio (leaf)
- manuscript (document genre)
- nudes
- snakes
- tree
- Title
- Virabhadra
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, South India
- Century
- 17th-18th century
- Object Creation Date
- 17th century - 18th century
- Accession Number
- 1977/2.45
- Medium and Support
- bronze
- Primary Keywords
- deity
- flames
- sword
- Title
- Eight-armed Durga Seated on a Ram
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, South India
- Century
- 18th century
- Object Creation Date
- 18th century
- Accession Number
- 1977/2.48
- Medium and Support
- bronze
- Primary Keywords
- deity
- flames
- 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
- Primary Keywords
- bull
- club (weapon)
- conch (shell)
- deity
- discus
- flames
- hinduism
- horse
- lotus
- vishnu
- Title
- Six-armed Bodhisattva Mañjusri, standing, with two celestial attendants
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India
- Physical Description
- Mañjusri, the Bodhisattva of Wisdom, standing with two celestial attendants. This representation of Manjushri includes six arms, one of which holds a sword, while a narrow book (modeled after books made from palm leaves) lays across his upper hand. Manjushri is wearing an ornamented crown and necklace, and is encircled by a halo of flames.
- Century
- 17th-18th century
- Object Creation Date
- 17th century
- Accession Number
- 1978/2.109
- Medium and Support
- bronze
- Primary Keywords
- bodhisattva
- buddhism
- deity
- flames
- himalayan
- lotus
- manjusri
- sword
- vajrayana
- Title
- Virabhadra
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, South India
- Century
- 17th-18th century
- Object Creation Date
- 17th century - 18th century
- Accession Number
- 1978/2.75
- Medium and Support
- bronze
- Primary Keywords
- deity
- flames
- Title
- Pehar Gyalpo
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Tibet or Nepal
- Physical Description
- A portable painting in mineral pigments and gold on a primed cotton ground; the painting is designed to be rolled up when not in use. The painting was folded at some time in its history, resulting in a loss of pigment along two vertical lines.
- Century
- 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- 19th century?
- Accession Number
- 1980/2.211
- Medium and Support
- ink, gouache, and gold pigment on cotton
- Primary Keywords
- buddhism
- deity
- flames
- guardians
- himalayan
- lama
- lions
- vajrayana
- Title
- Guru Dragpo Votive Plaque, in the shape of a lotus petal
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Tibet or Nepal
- Physical Description
- A bas-relief carving made of bone and in the shape of a lotus petal, depicting a wrathful guardian of the Tibetan Buddhist faith. At the base of the "petal" are the tops of mountains, with the waves of the sea visible between them; in the rounded part of the "petal," a border of flames encircles a dynamic image of the bodhisattva Vajrapani in his wrathful form. The background behind Vajrapani is incised with closely spaced wavy lines, again suggesting flames.
- Century
- 18th century
- Object Creation Date
- 18th century
- Accession Number
- 1985/2.49
- Medium and Support
- bone
- Primary Keywords
- bodhisattva
- bone
- buddhism
- flames
- himalayan
- lotus
- tibet (autonomous region)
- vajrayana
- Title
- Dorje Legpa Votive Plaque
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Tibet or Nepal
- Physical Description
- A bas-relief carving made of bone and in the shape of a lotus petal, depicting Pehar, a guardian of the Tibetan Buddhist faith, in wrathful form. At the base of the "petal" are the tops of mountains, with the waves of the sea visible between them; in the rounded part of the "petal," a border of flames encircles a dynamic image of Pehar, his garments flowing in the wind as he rides on a snow lion. The background behind Pehar is incised with closely spaced wavy lines, again suggesting flames.
- Century
- 18th century
- Object Creation Date
- 18th century
- Accession Number
- 1985/2.50
- Medium and Support
- bone
- Primary Keywords
- bone
- buddhism
- flames
- guardian
- himalayan
- lotus
- snow lion
- tibet (autonomous region)
- vajrayana