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- Title
- Digambara Jain manuscript page: Jina and worshippers
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Sirohi School
- Physical Description
- This image is divided in to 6 relatively equal portions, with the two most upper portions being slightly larger. Each section contains a human figure, except for the lower right section which contains 3 fish. The three figures on the left are featured profile facing towards the right. The two figures in the two lower sections on the right, mirror the left side and face profile to the left. The figure in the upper right corner faces out. This figure is yellow, without clothing, on a green background. This figure is also seated on a lotus blossom form above all the other figures. The figure to his left is also without clothing and is the only other figure to be seating not directly on the floor.
- The dominate colors in this image rotate between orange, green, red and blue with yellow highlights.
- Century
- 18th century
- Object Creation Date
- 18th century
- Accession Number
- 1975/2.180
- Medium and Support
- ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- The Sixth Night Vigil from a Kalpasutra manuscript (fol. no. 38v), depicting two pairs of queens
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Gujarat
- Physical Description
- A scene in the life of Mahavira. The composition is designated a narrow strip near the left, while the rest of the page is used for text and red circles. The illustration is divided into two registers, with depictions of two women in each. The infant Mahavira is seen in his mother’s arms, at the upper left.
- Century
- 15th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1478
- Accession Number
- 1981/2.162
- Medium and Support
- Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Ragamala series: Kanada Ragini 22
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Rajasthan, Jaipur School
- Century
- 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1800
- Accession Number
- 1981/2.46
- Medium and Support
- ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
- 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
- Krishna Fluting
- Artist
- India, Rajasthan, Mewar School
- Century
- late 16th - early 17th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1700
- Accession Number
- 1964/2.120
- Medium and Support
- ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Digambara Jain manuscript page: Jina and battle scene
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Sirohi School
- Physical Description
- Worshippers gather and seem to celebrate around a sky-clad (nude) Jina and monk at top center. Flanking these figures are two searted drummers. In the lower register men on horseback and elephant look up to them as the ride by and raise their weapons in battle. A trumpeter sounds his instrument in the bottom left.
- Century
- 18th century
- Object Creation Date
- 18th century
- Accession Number
- 1975/2.168
- Medium and Support
- ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Ragamala series: Nata Ragini 3 (Battle scene)
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Rajasthan, Jaipur School
- Century
- 18th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1750
- Accession Number
- 1975/2.158
- Medium and Support
- ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Râmâyana manuscript, folio 101: Demon Armies Pour Out of Ravana's Castle
- Artist
- India, Seu-Nainsukh School
- Century
- late 18th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1785-1800
- Accession Number
- 2002/1.166
- Medium and Support
- ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Kalpasutra manuscript, leaf: A Jaina monk (fol. no. 2r)
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Gujarat
- Physical Description
- Leaf from a Kalpasutra manuscript with calligraphic text. Font size varies, and in the center of the leaf text wraps around a blank box of parchment with a red dot in the center. To the left of this main text block is a colorful illustration of an enthroned figure in a dotted robe flanked by devotees. Surrounding him are various auspicious symbols.
- Century
- 15th century
- Object Creation Date
- 15th century
- Accession Number
- 1980/2.247
- Medium and Support
- ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Ragamala series: Nata ragini 3 (Battle scene)
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Rajasthan, Jaipur School
- Century
- 18th-19th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1800
- Accession Number
- 1981/2.49
- Medium and Support
- ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Ragamala series: Bilaval Ragini of Hindola Raga 14: Radha admires her face in a mirror
- Artist
- India, Rajasthan, Bundi-Kotah School
- Century
- Late 18th-Early 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1800
- Accession Number
- 1980/2.244
- Medium and Support
- ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Bilvamangala series, folio 30: Krishna and Balarama
- Artist
- India, Rajasthan, Mewar School
- Century
- late 17th - early 18th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1700
- Accession Number
- 1983/2.114
- Medium and Support
- ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Digambara Jain manuscript page: Jina venerated by a community of laymen
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Sirohi School
- Physical Description
- Eight worshippers sit to the right of a sky-clad (nude) Jina and monk. They each raise beads in their hands. Below them a struggle is depicted. Two men in shorts wrestle, while a snake, tiger, and elephant rera up beside a fire.
- Century
- 18th century
- Object Creation Date
- 18th century
- Accession Number
- 1975/2.169
- Medium and Support
- ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Ragamala series: Lalit Ragini
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Rajasthan, Jaipur School
- Century
- 18th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1750
- Accession Number
- 1975/2.159
- Medium and Support
- ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Kalpasutra manuscript page: Monks and Devotees
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Gujarat
- Physical Description
- The horizontal folio from a Kalpasutra manuscript consists of seven lines of text to the left and center broken by a squarish gold symbol framed in a red line and cusped blue lines. Gold diamond shapes framed in red are at the sides, with a vertical red line between the one on the left and the text. Between the text and the right diamond shape there is a painting consisting of three registers of figures against a red ground. The top row depicts three laymen wearing crowns, the middle two monks and a nun and the bottom row three nuns.
- Century
- 15th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1400-1450
- Accession Number
- 1970/2.116
- Medium and Support
- ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Ragamala series: Kukubha ragini
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Rajasthan, Jaipur School
- Century
- 18th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1750
- Accession Number
- 1975/2.153
- Medium and Support
- ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Dipak Raga from Ragamala series
- Artist
- India, Rajasthan, Bundi-Kotah School
- Physical Description
- Two lovers sit in an elaborate, symmetrical marble palace, decorated with inlaid stone and a domed roof. Inside, a highly individualized prince sits near his lover and caresses her chin. Above the scene is a box containing calligraphic text.
- Century
- late 18th-early 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1800
- Accession Number
- 1985/1.134
- Medium and Support
- ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Râmâyana series, folio 204 from the "Balakanda"
- Artist
- India, Rajasthan, Mewar School
- Century
- 18th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1725
- Accession Number
- 1983/2.109
- Medium and Support
- ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Jina venerated by a monk, men and women, a naga, and animals from a Digambara Jain manuscript
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Sirohi School
- Physical Description
- A Jina is encircled by a giant halo of ref, green, blue, gold, and white. Within the halo are different creatures, including a tiger, bird, naga, and devotees. The Jina sits nude on a throne with his legs crossed and hands together. Above him are clouds in the sky, and below a monk and devotees.
- Century
- 18th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 18th century
- Accession Number
- 1975/2.170
- Medium and Support
- ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Ragamala series: Ragini Kedarau
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Rajasthan, Jaipur School
- Century
- 18th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1750
- Accession Number
- 1975/2.160
- Medium and Support
- ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Kalpasutra manuscript, leaf: The Courtesan Kosha and the King's Charioteer (fol. no. 102v)
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Gujarat
- Physical Description
- Alongside a block of calligraphic text a red rectable sets off an illustrative space. In the bottom right corner of the illustration a woman dances, and on the left a larger figure pulls an arrow taught in a bow.
- Century
- 16th century
- Object Creation Date
- early 15th century
- Accession Number
- 1997/2.39
- Medium and Support
- ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Krishna Presenting a Gem to Radha
- Artist
- India, Rajasthan, Kishangarh School
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1970s
- Accession Number
- 1981/2.174
- Medium and Support
- ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Ragamala series: Ragini Madhumadhavi of Hindola Raga 18
- Artist
- India, Rajasthan, Bundi-Kotah School
- Century
- late 18th-early 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1800
- Accession Number
- 1985/2.135
- Medium and Support
- ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Râmâyana series, folio 183 from the "Balakanda"
- Artist
- India, Rajasthan, Mewar School
- Century
- 18th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1725
- Accession Number
- 1983/2.110
- Medium and Support
- ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- 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
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Ragamala series: Ragini Patamanjari
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Rajasthan, Jaipur School
- Century
- 18th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1750
- Accession Number
- 1975/2.161
- Medium and Support
- ink, opaque watercolor, and gold 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 who casts away her jewels
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Rajasthan, Kotah School
- Century
- late 18th century
- Object Creation Date
- late 18th century
- Accession Number
- 1980/2.245
- Medium and Support
- ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Iconography series: "Danu" [Sagittarius]: Archer-centaur
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Rajasthan, Jaipur School
- Century
- 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1840
- Accession Number
- 1985/2.137
- Medium and Support
- ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Panchakhyana Series, page 28: Court Scene
- Artist
- India, Rajasthan, Mewar School
- Century
- 18th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1725-1740
- Accession Number
- 1997/2.42
- Medium and Support
- ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Jina and a monk in a landscape from a Digambara Jain manuscript
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Sirohi School
- Physical Description
- This painting illustrates a verse from a Digambara Jain manuscript that likens the capacity of praising the Jina to destroy sins to the way the sun obliterates darkness; it shows a sun with the face of a Jina illuminating the sky. The golden-hued Jina and the monk who venerate a Jina are nude, identifying them as belonging to the Digambara (sky-clad) sect of Jainism.
- Century
- 18th century
- Object Creation Date
- 18th century
- Accession Number
- 1975/2.172
- Medium and Support
- ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Ragamala series: Bhairon Raga
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Rajasthan, Jaipur School
- Century
- 18th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1750
- Accession Number
- 1975/2.162
- Medium and Support
- ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Shiva and his family
- Artist
- India, Punjab Hills, Kangra School
- Physical Description
- In this idyllic scene, the goddess Parvati offers her husband Shiva a drink, as they enjoy a quiet moment together. Their children, the elephant-headed Ganesha and Skanda, play inside a tent made from the hide of an elephant demon that Shiva had slain. Both parents are clothed in animal skins, the garb of mountain-dwelling ascetics, while Shiva is further adorned with a long necklace of skulls and a snake.
- Century
- 18th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1790-1800
- Accession Number
- 1942.4
- Medium and Support
- ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Adoration of Shri Nathji
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Rajasthan, Kotah School
- Physical Description
- The richly dressed sculpture in the central niche is Shri Nathaji, an alternative name for Krishna, and the principal deity of the Vallabha Sampraday sect, to which the Kotah ruling family belonged. A priest is shown performing the lamp-waving ceremony before Shri Nathaji. At right is a small costumed sculpture of Krishna playing the flute.
- Century
- 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1830
- Accession Number
- 2003/2.9
- Medium and Support
- ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Iconography series: "Budha" [Mercury], elephant-headed goddess on a white bird
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Rajasthan, Jaipur School
- Century
- 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1840
- Accession Number
- 1985/2.138
- Medium and Support
- ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Devimahatmya manuscript: A Demon Warrior Worships Devi (fol. no. 44r)
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Sirohi School
- Century
- 18th century
- Object Creation Date
- 18th century
- Accession Number
- 1985/2.139
- Medium and Support
- ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Jina venerated by a monk and a royal devotee from a Digambara Jain manuscript
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Sirohi School
- Physical Description
- This painting is a rare depiction of the Jina’s first preaching. It is said that the speech of the Jina is like no other and that miracles occur upon hearing it. Here the Jina is depicted with four heads, representing the miraculous ability to see from all four directions at once. The golden-hued Jina and the monk who venerate a Jina are nude, identifying them as belonging to the Digambara (sky-clad) sect of Jainism.
- Century
- 18th century
- Object Creation Date
- 18th century
- Accession Number
- 1975/2.173
- Medium and Support
- ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Jina and a devotee from a Digambara Jain manuscript
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India
- Physical Description
- Nude (Jina, center) and a devotees (nude on left, and other clothed figures) depicted in a folio of a Jain manuscript.
- The image contains trees, lotus flowers and dark clouds. The the colors are composed of vivid reds, browns, yellows, greens and blues. The image is surrounded by a red and green pattereed border which resembles a chain.
- Century
- 18th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 18th century
- Accession Number
- 1975/2.174
- Medium and Support
- ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Ragamala Sesries: Dipak raga 8?
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Rajasthan, Jaipur School
- Century
- Late 18th-Early 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1800
- Accession Number
- 1985/1.133
- 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
- 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
- Jina venerated by a monk and a lay devotee from Digambara Jain Manuscript
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Sirohi School
- Physical Description
- A man reclines on a carpet or cloth, and looks up at two figures above him. On the right, a deity sits cross-legged on a pedestal with a canopy over its head. To the left, another figure faces the deity, also on a pedestal carpet. He appears to be naked, and raises his in gesture towards the deity. A metal lamp or ewer rests below him, on what appears to be an abstract mountain, on which the reclining man also lies. He holds what may be prayer beads, and wears robes with stripes and his covered head rests on a pillow.
- Century
- 18th century
- Object Creation Date
- 18th century
- Accession Number
- 1975/2.163
- Medium and Support
- Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Ragamala series: Ragini Minavati
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Rajasthan, Jaipur School
- Century
- 18th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1750
- Accession Number
- 1975/2.152
- Medium and Support
- ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Digambara Jain manuscript page: Jina and devotees
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Sirohi School
- Physical Description
- Multi-colored ink on paper. Prominent reds, yellows and blues. Six figures, three smaller (clothed), three larger (nude or semi-nude). Scene of worship.
- Century
- 18th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 18th century
- Accession Number
- 1975/2.176
- Medium and Support
- ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Jina and devotees from a Digambara Jain manuscript
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India
- Physical Description
- Nude Jina sitting on altar-like structure in center of image. The "altar" is sitting on a lotus flower. There are devotees on all four sides of Jina, a total of five persons. The devotee at the left is also nude. There are red and yellow flags, and various flowers scattered all over the image. There is a red and green border. The colors present are vivid reds, greens, yellows and deep blues.
- Century
- 18th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 18th century
- Accession Number
- 1975/2.175
- Medium and Support
- ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Iconography series: Saturn, mounted on a tiger
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Rajasthan, Jaipur School
- Physical Description
- Two figures, Shani and his tiger are depicted centrally in the image. The background is very simple with some grass tufts and a pond near the very bottom of the images.
- Century
- 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1840
- Accession Number
- 1987/1.248
- Medium and Support
- ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- 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 0.00000
- Title
- A Raja with his Ladies
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Rajasthan, Marwar, Jodhpur?
- Century
- 18th century
- Object Creation Date
- mid 18th century
- Accession Number
- 1985/2.140
- Medium and Support
- ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Jina venerated by a monk, Harihara, Garuda, and Nandi from Digambara Jain manuscript
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Sirohi School
- Physical Description
- A nude monk on the top left sits before a Jina at top right. Three Hindu gods, Harihara, Garuda, and Nandi venerate the Jina in the bottom registers.
- Century
- 18th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 18th century
- Accession Number
- 1975/2.164
- Medium and Support
- ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Ragamala series: Ragini Bilavala
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Rajasthan, Jaipur School
- Century
- 18th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1750
- Accession Number
- 1975/2.154
- Medium and Support
- ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
- relevance
- rank 0.00000