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- 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 6.19142
- 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
- relevance
- rank 6.12553
- 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
- relevance
- rank 6.12553
- Title
- Krishna massaging the feet of Radha (a scene from the Gita Govinda?)
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Punjab Hills, Mankot School
- Physical Description
- Bold colors depict Krishna, one of human manifestations of the Hindu god Vishnu, is seated with a woman, Radha, above him. He touches her leg, and the tips of her hands and feet glow red. She sits erect and holds a large flower, looking straight off the left edge of the picture. The two are framed in an architectural structure.
- Century
- 18th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1730
- Accession Number
- 1979/1.160
- Medium and Support
- ink, opaque watercolor, gold, and beetle thorax casings on paper
- relevance
- rank 6.12553
- 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
- relevance
- rank 6.12553
- 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
- relevance
- rank 6.12553
- Title
- "Bhagavata Purana" series: Krishna and Balarama Studying with the Brahman Sandipani
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Uttar Pradesh, Chaurapancasika Style
- Physical Description
- Krishna, in blue, and Balarama are portrayed in identical poses and wearing peacock-feather headdresses. The paunchy bearded figure at right is their mentor, Sandipani. Two other, older students appear at left. They are seated, approximately equidistantly spaced, in an architectural structure that organizes the space.
- Century
- 16th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1525-1550
- Accession Number
- 1983/2.104
- Medium and Support
- ink and opaque watercolor on paper
- relevance
- rank 6.12553
- 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
- relevance
- rank 6.12553
- 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
- relevance
- rank 6.12553
- 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
- relevance
- rank 6.12553
- 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
- relevance
- rank 6.12553
- 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
- relevance
- rank 6.12553
- Title
- Man with two ladies
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Punjab Hills, Nurpur School
- Century
- 18th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1750-1760
- Accession Number
- 1997/2.43
- Medium and Support
- ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
- relevance
- rank 6.12553
- 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
- relevance
- rank 6.12553
- Title
- In a wooded background with a small temple sheltering the lingam. Floral
- foreground. From a Ragamala Series.
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Uttar Pradesh, Chaurapancasika Style
- Century
- 16th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1550-1575
- Accession Number
- 1983/2.105
- Medium and Support
- ink and opaque watercolor on birch bark
- relevance
- rank 6.12553
- 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
- relevance
- rank 6.12553