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- Title
- Bhu Devi
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Tamil Nadu
- Physical Description
- Bhudevi stands in a tribhanga pose (with three bends) with her left arm hanging pendant to her side and holding a lotus bud in her right hand. She leans towards the figure of Vishnu in the grouping of three bronzes. She stands on a base consisting of a flat square element topped with a series of five round rings. She wears a decorated lower garment flared out on either side in a pattern. She wears a decorated belt and necklaces, bracelets and armlets, with shoulder loops, earrings and a crown. The jewelry and crown is highlighted with gold paint as is his clothing and the two attributes. She does not wear a band across her breasts, as does Shridevi in groupings with Vishnu and Bhudevi.
- Century
- 17th-18th century
- Object Creation Date
- 17th century - 18th century
- Accession Number
- 1978/2.132
- Medium and Support
- bronze
- 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
- Title
- Durga
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Tamil Nadu
- Century
- 20th-century
- Object Creation Date
- 19th century - 20th century
- Accession Number
- 1975/2.106
- Medium and Support
- bronze
- Title
- Equestrian Figure
- Artist
- Artist Unknown India, Tamil Nadu, Pudukottai Workshop
- Century
- 16th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 16th century
- Accession Number
- 1975/2.137
- Medium and Support
- copper
- Title
- Folk Durga
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Tamil Nadu
- Century
- 18th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 18th century
- Accession Number
- 1975/2.110
- Medium and Support
- bronze
- Title
- Hanuman
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Tamil Nadu
- Physical Description
- Hanuman stands on a tiered base, which starts square and sloped, then is square and straight up and then round sloped and ringed. He has a human body and a monkey’s head. He stands in an unbending stance with his hands in anjali mudra, held up to his chest with palms together in a prayer gesture. He wears a diaphanous garment from the waist down with only the edged decorated and depicted with a series of belts and sashes hanging in front of it. He wears a number of necklaces and armlets. His face is very worn and far less realistic than the body with the large round eyes incised with eyebrows above and a large circle on his forehead. His mouth is a simple slit.
- Century
- 17th century
- Object Creation Date
- 17th century
- Accession Number
- 1976/2.53
- Medium and Support
- bronze
- Title
- Hanuman, standing, in anjali mudra (part of a Rama shrine)
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Tamil Nadu
- Physical Description
- Hanuman is depicted with a human body and a monkey head. He stands in an unbending posture of devotion with his hands held on his chest with the palms together in a gesture of prayer, namaskara. He wears a lower garment that is decorated with belts and pendant loops and the cloth has formal decorative folds cascading down his sides. He wears a decorated belt and necklaces, bracelets and armlets, with shoulder loops, earrings, and a simple crown with a leaf shape at the top. He wears a dagger at his waist and his tail curves up behind him making a loop top frame his head like a halo.
- Century
- 18th century
- Object Creation Date
- 18th century
- Accession Number
- 1979/2.55
- Medium and Support
- bronze
- Title
- Lakshmi (small folk bronze)
- Artist
- Artist Unknown India, Tamil Nadu, Pudukottai Workshop
- Century
- 16th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 16th century
- Accession Number
- 1975/2.143
- Medium and Support
- copper
- Title
- Lota (sacred bowl)
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Tamil Nadu
- Century
- 18th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 18th century
- Accession Number
- 1975/2.135
- Medium and Support
- brass
- Title
- Rama
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Tamil Nadu
- Physical Description
- The two-handed figure stands in relaxed posture on a base consisting of square and round forms. At the bottom of each shape stylized lotus petals are incised. His right hand is extended outwards and would have been holding an arrow and he left arm is extended up to his die to hold a bow. He wears much of jewelry including anklets bracelets, armlets, necklace and shoulder loops, belts with pendant elements and a sacred thread reaching just below his waist. He wears a lower garment with incised lines delineating the folds and sections that flare out to either side. He wears an elaborate crown. One element extends over his right shoulder, which may either be part of his quiver of arrows or a broken section of a halo. He wears a conical headdress incised with a worn pattern. His face is sharply stylized with a long straight nose and wide, open eyes.
- Century
- 14th century
- Object Creation Date
- 14th century
- Accession Number
- 2000/2.153
- Medium and Support
- bronze
- Title
- Shiva standing
- Artist
- Artist Unknown India, Tamil Nadu, Pudukottai Workshop
- Physical Description
- Shiva stands on a tiny base with little feet in a strict unbending stance. The body is elongated with a small waist, the hips billowing out and tapering in a stylized way to the feet. He has broad shoulders and has four arms. Reading in a clockwise direction from the right front hand, he holds, a sword, another sword, a bow and a shield. He wears a lot of jewelry, necklaces that cover his entire chest, at least three belts with pendant decorations and what appears to be a bustle like garment that billows out from his waist and has a beaded border that curves down across his legs below his knees. He wears large earrings and a crown decorated with a disk for the sun and crescent for the moon. He has large wide opened eyes and what almost looks like two sets of eyebrows, a dot where his third eye should be and a luxurious moustache.
- Century
- 15th-16th century
- Object Creation Date
- 15th century - 16th century
- Accession Number
- 1978/2.116
- Medium and Support
- bronze
- Title
- Standing goddess holding a lotus in her right hand
- Artist
- Artist Unknown India, Tamil Nadu, Pudukottai Workshop
- Century
- 17th century
- Object Creation Date
- 17th century
- Accession Number
- 1978/2.128
- Medium and Support
- bronze
- Title
- Standing Parvati
- Artist
- Artist Unknown India, Tamil Nadu, Pudukottai Workshop
- Physical Description
- Parvati stands on a tiny base with little feet in a strict unbending stance. The body is elongated with a small waist, the hips billowing out and tapering in a stylized way to the feet. He has broad shoulders, pointy breasts that fall quite low in the chest and has two arms holding a bowl in her right one and a lotus flower in her left. She wears a d simple tight fitting skirt decorated with incised lines and a corded belt that falls down the center of her body with five rows of cords falling from the center and wrapping around her legs creating a fishbone pattern. She wears necklaces with added pendants on her shoulders and her coiffure is tied in a chignon on the right side at the back of her head wearing a headdress that has decorations that cascade down both shoulders. Like the accompanying Shiva figure she has large eyes and what appear to be two sets of eyebrows, but the tikka on her forehead is of a flame shape.
- Century
- 15th-16th century
- Object Creation Date
- 15th century - 16th century
- Accession Number
- 1978/2.127
- Medium and Support
- bronze
- Title
- Sutra Writings
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Tamil Nadu
- Century
- 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 19th century
- Accession Number
- 1997/1.175
- Medium and Support
- incised palm-leaf, darkened with charcoal dust
- 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
- Title
- Sutra Writings
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Tamil Nadu
- Century
- 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 19th century
- Accession Number
- 1997/1.177
- Medium and Support
- incised palm-leaf, darkened with charcoal dust
- Title
- Sutra Writings
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Tamil Nadu
- Century
- 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 19th century
- Accession Number
- 1997/1.178
- Medium and Support
- incised palm-leaf, darkened with charcoal dust
- Title
- Sutra Writings
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Tamil Nadu
- Century
- 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 19th century
- Accession Number
- 1997/1.179
- Medium and Support
- incised palm-leaf, darkened with charcoal dust
- Title
- Sutra Writings
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Tamil Nadu
- Century
- 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 19th century
- Accession Number
- 1997/1.180
- Medium and Support
- incised palm-leaf, darkened with charcoal dust
- Title
- Sutra Writings
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Tamil Nadu
- Century
- 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 19th century
- Accession Number
- 1997/1.181
- Medium and Support
- incised palm-leaf, darkened with charcoal dust
- Title
- Village Hero (? Rama; fragment) (small folk bronze)
- Artist
- Artist Unknown India, Tamil Nadu, Pudukottai Workshop
- Century
- 16th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 16th century
- Accession Number
- 1975/2.140
- Medium and Support
- copper
- Title
- Village Hero (small folk bronze)
- Artist
- Artist Unknown India, Tamil Nadu, Pudukottai Workshop
- Century
- 16th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 16th century
- Accession Number
- 1975/2.138
- Medium and Support
- copper
- Title
- Village Hero (small folk bronze)
- Artist
- Artist Unknown India, Tamil Nadu, Pudukottai Workshop
- Century
- 16th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 16th century
- Accession Number
- 1975/2.139
- Medium and Support
- copper
- 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
- Title
- Vishnu as Bhogasthanakamurti, accompanied by a pair of female attendants, 1978/2.131 and 1978/2.132
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Tamil Nadu
- Physical Description
- Vishnu stands on a base consisting of a flat square element topped with a series of five round rings. He stands in an unbending pose and has four arms. Reading clockwise from his front right hand, he is in varada mudra, holds a discus, holds a conch, and is on his hip. He wears a decorated lower garment flared out on either side in a pattern. He wears a decorated belt and necklaces, a sacred thread and shoulder loops, bracelets and armlets, earrings and a crown. The jewelry and crown is highlighted with gold paint as is his clothing and the two attributes.
- Century
- 17th-18th century
- Object Creation Date
- 17th century - 18th century
- Accession Number
- 1978/2.123
- Medium and Support
- bronze
- Title
- Visnhu triad: goddess Shri Devi, 1 of 3 figures
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Tamil Nadu
- Physical Description
- Shridevi stands in a tribhanga pose (with three bends) with her right arm hanging pendant to her side and holding a lotus bud in her left hand. She leans towards the figure of Vishnu in the grouping of three bronzes. She stands on a base consisting of a flat square element topped with a series of five round rings. She wears a decorated lower garment flared out on either side in a pattern. She wears a decorated belt and necklaces, bracelets and armlets, with shoulder loops, earrings and a crown. The jewelry and crown is highlighted with gold paint as is his clothing and the two attributes. She also wears a band across her breasts, a characteristic of Shridevi in groupings with Vishnu and his other consort, Bhudevi.
- Century
- 17th-18th century
- Object Creation Date
- 17th century - 18th century
- Accession Number
- 1978/2.131
- Medium and Support
- bronze
- Title
- Yasoda and Krishna (small folk bronze)
- Artist
- Artist Unknown India, Tamil Nadu, Pudukottai Workshop
- Century
- 16th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 16th century
- Accession Number
- 1975/2.141
- Medium and Support
- copper
- Title
- Yasoda and Krishna (small folk bronze)
- Artist
- Artist Unknown India, Tamil Nadu, Pudukottai Workshop
- Century
- 16th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 16th century
- Accession Number
- 1975/2.142
- Medium and Support
- copper
- Title
- Yasoda and Krishna (small folk bronze)
- Artist
- Artist Unknown India, Tamil Nadu, Pudukottai Workshop
- Century
- 16th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 16th century
- Accession Number
- 1975/2.144
- Medium and Support
- copper