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Folk Shiva; Artist Unknown, India, North or Central India

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
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Folk Figure of Female Devotee Making an Offering; Artist Unknown, India, North or Central India

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
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rank 0.00000

Bull; Artist Unknown, India, North or Central India

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
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rank 0.00000

Horse (small folk bronze); Artist Unknown, India, North or Central India

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
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Vishnu; Artist Unknown, India, North or Central India

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
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rank 0.00000

Vishnu, seated (worn from centuries of handling); Artist Unknown, India, Northeastern India

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
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rank 0.00000

Folk Durga on a Lion; Artist Unknown, India, Northwest India

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
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rank 0.00000

Mahishasuramardini; Artist Unknown, India, Northwest India

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
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rank 0.00000

Shiva, seated (small folk bronze); Artist Unknown, India, Northwest India

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
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rank 0.00000

Village Hero; Artist Unknown, India, Northwest India

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
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rank 0.00000

Shiva and Parvati (small folk bronze); Artist Unknown, India, Northwest India

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
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rank 0.00000

Standing votive figure; Artist Unknown, India, Northwest India

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
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rank 0.00000

Standing female votive figure; Artist Unknown, India, Northwest India

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
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rank 0.00000

Standing Female Votive , carrying two lotuses; Artist Unknown, India, Northwest India

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

Oriya manuscript (unidentified), leaf: A Meeting in the Forest (pair with 1997/2.40); India, Orissa

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
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Oriya manuscript (unidentified), folio: A Courtier Visits an Ascetic. (Images and text on both sides; pair with 1985/2.144); India, Orissa

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
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Drawing for a Ramayana series: Rama, Lakshmana and Sugriva in conference (fol. 204); Artist Unknown, India, Punjab Hills; Attributed to

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
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rank 0.00000

Gita Govinda Series: Radha and Krishna in room with two sakhis in conversation (preliminary sketch); Artist Unknown, India, Punjab Hills

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
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rank 0.00000

Radha Showing Krishna his Reflection; India, Punjab Hills, Kangra School

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
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rank 0.00000

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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rank 0.00000

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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rank 0.00000

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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Multi-armed Kali on a corpse (small folk bronze); Artist Unknown, India, Rajasthan

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
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Plate Inscribed with Flying Figure of Hanuman Holding a Flag, Mace and Spear; Artist Unknown, India, Rajasthan

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
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rank 0.00000

Lakshmi lustrated by elephants (Gaja Lakshmi (Goddess)); India, Rajasthan, Bundi School

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
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rank 0.00000

A celebration of the rains; Artist Unknown, India, Rajasthan, Kotah School

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
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Two men on a camel; Artist Unknown, India, Rajasthan, Marwar, Jodhpur

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
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rank 0.00000

Mukha-Linga; Artist Unknown, India, South India

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
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rank 0.00000

Mukha-Linga; Artist Unknown, India, South India

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

Mukha-Linga, Cobra head; Artist Unknown, India, South India

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

Bhairava; Artist Unknown, India, South India

Title
Bhairava
Artist
Artist Unknown, India, South India
Century
16th – 19th century
Object Creation Date
16th century - 19th century
Accession Number
1981/2.55
Medium and Support
copper
relevance
rank 0.00000

Durga; Artist Unknown, India, South India

Title
Durga
Artist
Artist Unknown, India, South India
Century
20th-century
Object Creation Date
circa 19th century - 20th century
Accession Number
1975/2.107
Medium and Support
bronze
relevance
rank 0.00000

Lakshmi-Narayana; Artist Unknown, India, South India

Title
Lakshmi-Narayana
Artist
Artist Unknown, India, South India
Century
19th century
Object Creation Date
19th century
Accession Number
1977/2.56
Medium and Support
copper
relevance
rank 0.00000

Ganesha, seated; Artist Unknown, India, South India

Title
Ganesha, seated
Artist
Artist Unknown, India, South India
Century
18th-19th century
Object Creation Date
18th century - 19th century
Accession Number
1977/2.88
Medium and Support
bronze
relevance
rank 0.00000

Vishnu triad, with Saraswati and Lakshmi (?) (miniature folk bronze); Artist Unknown, India, South India

Title
Vishnu triad, with Saraswati and Lakshmi (?) (miniature folk bronze)
Artist
Artist Unknown, India, South India
Century
19th century
Object Creation Date
19th century
Accession Number
1977/2.91
Medium and Support
copper
relevance
rank 0.00000

Subrahmanya (also known as Karttikeya, Kumara, etc.); Artist Unknown, India, South India

Title
Subrahmanya (also known as Karttikeya, Kumara, etc.)
Artist
Artist Unknown, India, South India
Physical Description
Subrahmanya stands on a tiered base which starts square and sloped, then is square and straight up and then round sloped with an incised decoration, then flanged out as a base for the figure to stand. He stands in an unbending pose and has four hands. Reading in a clockwise direction form the right front hand they are: in a reassuring gesture [abhyaya mudra], holding a vajra [a symbol of lightening], holding a symbol of a spear [actually what can be read as the head of the spear], and in a gesture of giving [varada mudra]. He wears a lung from his waist decorated with incised pattern and a lot of jewelry including belts with pendants, necklaces a decorated beaded sacred thread, large earring and an elaborate crown.
Century
19th-20th century
Object Creation Date
19th century - 20th century
Accession Number
1978/2.114
Medium and Support
bronze
relevance
rank 0.00000

Durga; Artist Unknown, India, Tamil Nadu

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
relevance
rank 0.00000

Sutra Writings; Artist Unknown, India, Tamil Nadu

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
relevance
rank 0.00000

Sutra Writings; Artist Unknown, India, Tamil Nadu

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 0.00000

Sutra Writings; Artist Unknown, India, Tamil Nadu

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
relevance
rank 0.00000

Sutra Writings; Artist Unknown, India, Tamil Nadu

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
relevance
rank 0.00000

Sutra Writings; Artist Unknown, India, Tamil Nadu

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
relevance
rank 0.00000

Sutra Writings; Artist Unknown, India, Tamil Nadu

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
relevance
rank 0.00000

Sutra Writings; Artist Unknown, India, Tamil Nadu

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
relevance
rank 0.00000

Kris handle; Indonesia

Title
Kris handle
Artist
Indonesia
Century
19th century
Object Creation Date
19th century
Accession Number
1981/2.78
Medium and Support
wood
relevance
rank 0.00000

Dagger; Indonesia

Title
Dagger
Artist
Indonesia
Century
19th century
Object Creation Date
19th century
Accession Number
1979/2.87
Medium and Support
steel with bone handle
relevance
rank 0.00000

'Sung Sang Kala' (Sunday in "Pelelintangan" —Balinese calendar); Indonesia, Bali

Title
'Sung Sang Kala' (Sunday in "Pelelintangan" —Balinese calendar)
Artist
Indonesia, Bali
Century
Late 19th century
Object Creation Date
late 19th century
Accession Number
1966/2.15
Medium and Support
ink and opaque watercolor on hand-woven cotton
relevance
rank 0.00000

Netsuke of mouse and chestnut on leaves; Ippo

Title
Netsuke of mouse and chestnut on leaves
Artist
Ippo
Artist Life Dates
1665-1737
Century
19th century
Object Creation Date
19th century
Accession Number
1997/2.20
Medium and Support
wood
relevance
rank 0.00000

Shallow plate with floral rim design on broad rim; Artist Unknown, Iran

Title
Shallow plate with floral rim design on broad rim
Artist
Artist Unknown, Iran
Century
18th-19th century
Object Creation Date
18th century - 19th century
Accession Number
1957/1.88
Medium and Support
earthenware with glaze
relevance
rank 0.00000

Plate; Artist Unknown, Iran

Title
Plate
Artist
Artist Unknown, Iran
Century
18th-19th century
Object Creation Date
18th century - 19th century
Accession Number
1957/1.91
Medium and Support
earthenware with glaze
relevance
rank 0.00000
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