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- Title
- Durga on her lion mount
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Bihar
- Physical Description
- The four-armed Durga sits on a stylized crouching lion with her right leg pendant and the left one across her body. Her front right hand extends down with palm outwards in a boon giving gesture while the back right hand holds a sword. Her left font hand holds a fruit or flower bud while her back left hand holds a shield. The whole is simply carved with rather subdued jewelry, but she does wear necklaces, bracelets, armlets and loose anklets as well as large circular earrings and a diadem across her forehead. Her hair is arranged behind the diadem. The stele is subtly pointed and its only decoration is a band along the outside, although a throne is suggested at her knees. A highly stylized lotus supports her right foot at the base.
- Century
- 13th-14th century
- Object Creation Date
- 13th century - 14th century
- Accession Number
- 1981/1.315
- Medium and Support
- stone
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- A Votive plaque depicting a Bodhisattva in Amitabha's (Chinese. Amitofou's) Western Paradise, giving rebirth to new souls from lotus buds
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, China
- Physical Description
- A small, thin, molded clay plaque with a bas-relief scene.
- Century
- 7th-9th century
- Object Creation Date
- 618-907
- Accession Number
- 1964/2.17
- Medium and Support
- terracotta, molded
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Ganesha
- Artist
- India, Central India
- Century
- 10th-12th century
- Object Creation Date
- 10th century - 12th century
- Accession Number
- 1981/1.317
- Medium and Support
- sandstone
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- A Votive plaque depicting the Buddha Amitâbha (Chinese, Amitofou) preaching in his Western Paradise
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, China
- Physical Description
- A small, thin, molded clay plaque with a bas-relief scene..
- Century
- 7th-9th century
- Object Creation Date
- 618-907
- Accession Number
- 1964/2.18
- Medium and Support
- terracotta, molded
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Vishnu as Varaha, the Cosmic Boar
- Artist
- India, Central India
- Physical Description
- This intricate stele has a large Varaha in the center. He is in the archer’s stance, with his right leg extended and his left leg bent resting on a lotus held up by a male and female snake figures. They have human bodies from the waist up and knotted snake bodies below. Varaha has a human body with the head of a boar, his head thrown back supporting the figure of the earth goddess who holds on to his snout. A lotus leaf acts as an umbrella over his head. Three of his four arms are intact with his right one at his hip holding a broken lotus, only the stem survives, and the two left hands holding a conch at his chest and a discus at his knee. The broken arm held the club and the top of it is still visible next to the pavilion on the left over his shoulder. Besides the two snake figures, three figures stand on the base to either side, the other one female, while the others are male. The inner two hold the conch and discus and can be considered shankhapurausha and cakrapurusha, the personifications of the two weapons. The figure in the center on the left ahs his hand raised over his head and the one on the right holds an arrow. They stand against pilaster forms, each surmounted by a pillared pavilion. To the sides of the pillars, vyalis (a composite animal) decorate the columns, a conventional throne motif and above them on the outside some devotee figures, the one on the right is broken. Against the pillar a broken animal figure is to the right and a seated devotee is seen on the left. The two pavilion forms house gods. The one to the left houses a small four-armed image of Brahma (three of his heads show, the central one with a beard) holding his usual attributes, a ladle for ritual and probably a pot, etc.. That on the right houses a four-armed figure of Shiva holding a trident and other attributes. The top of the stele is broken, but there is a devotee to the left and a row of seven figures all with hand up in a reassuring gesture and the other holding a pot. Could there have been two more and represent the nine planets? They do not appear very different one from the other.
- Century
- 10th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 10th century
- Accession Number
- 2002/1.167
- Medium and Support
- sandstone
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- A Votive plaque depicting the Bodhisattva Ksitigarbha (Ch. Dizang), in Amitabha's Western Paradise
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, China
- Physical Description
- A small, thin, molded clay plaque with a bas-relief scene.
- Century
- 7th-9th century
- Object Creation Date
- 618-907
- Accession Number
- 1964/2.19
- Medium and Support
- terracotta, molded
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Tara
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Northeastern India
- Physical Description
- Black schist carved in the relief of Green Tara, a guide and saviouress on the Buddhist path to enlightenment. She holds two lotuses, one open and one closed and makes the gesture of gift-giving with her palm facing outwards, towards the devotee.
- Century
- 10th century
- Object Creation Date
- 10th century
- Accession Number
- 1981/2.156
- Medium and Support
- black schist
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara (Chinese, Guanyin) with a willow branch and vase
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, China
- Century
- 7th-10th century
- Object Creation Date
- 618-907
- Accession Number
- 1964/2.20
- Medium and Support
- Molded terracotta votive plaque
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Virabhadra plaque
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, South India
- Physical Description
- Shiva as Virabhadra stand in a relaxed posture under an elaborate arch placed above a goose form on either side. The arch curves inward and forms a heart shape at the center meeting in a mask of glory, a kirtimukha. Against the pillars holding up the arch are figures of the goat-headed Daksha on his right and saintly figure on his right. Both are in posed of devotion with their hands in a prayer pose, namaskara. Virabhadra has four arms (reading clockwise from his front right hand) holding a sword, an axe, a trident and resting on a club. He wears a lower garment covered by a series of belts and a multi-tiered necklace coving much of his chest. He also wears a long garland decorated with small human heads at the bottom across his thighs. A five-headed snake hood is spread behind his crown and coils of the snake project above each of his shoulders.
- Century
- 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- 20th century
- Accession Number
- 1979/2.42
- Medium and Support
- copper
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- A Votive plaque depicting the Buddha seated in dhyana mudra, and flanked by two stupas
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, China
- Physical Description
- A small, thin, molded clay plaque with a bas-relief scene.
- Century
- 7th-9th century
- Object Creation Date
- 618-907
- Accession Number
- 1964/2.23
- Medium and Support
- terracotta, molded
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Lotus Relief, Fragment from the crosspiece of a stupa railing in Mathura
- Artist
- India, Uttar Pradesh, Mathura
- Physical Description
- The red mottled sandstone of this lotus relief is unique to the Sikri quarry, just outside of Mathura.
- Century
- 3rd century
- Object Creation Date
- 3rd century
- Accession Number
- 1963/1.90
- Medium and Support
- red sandstone
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Buddha, seated in the padmasana pose, in dhyana mudra, flanked by two donor figures and with a mandorla of the seven Buddhas of the past (fragment of a stele)
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, China
- Century
- 6th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 500-550
- Accession Number
- 1964/1.89
- Medium and Support
- stone
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Profile Airflow—Test Mold, Front End
- Artist
- Claes Oldenburg
- Physical Description
- A polyurethane relief sculpture of the front end of an automobile superimposed over a silkscreen image of the car in an aluminum frame.
- Artist Life Dates
- American, born Sweden, 1929
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1968-1972
- Accession Number
- 1975/1.80
- Medium and Support
- polyurethane relief over one-color silkscreen on Plexiglas
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Capital from the palace-city of Medinat al-Zahara with stylized acanthus leaves, vine rinceau and fleurons
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Cordova, Spain
- Physical Description
- This capital, based upon the Roman composite order, features stylized acanthus leaves and rinceau on the bell of the capital, which terminates in a band of bead-and-reel motif on the astragal. This, in turn, is capped by an echinus decorated with three fleurons and vine rinceau on each face as well as four projecting volutes also decorated with rinceau and fleurons. Originally the bell of the capital had two tiers of acanthus leaves, but the capital has been cropped below the top of the first tier and the tips of the leaves, which once curved outward from the surface of the capital, have been sheared off.
- Century
- 10th century
- Object Creation Date
- 936-1010
- Accession Number
- 1979/2.1
- Medium and Support
- marble
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Console with bird in vine scroll, rinceau, and angel
- Artist
- Anonymous French (Burgundy)
- Physical Description
- A three-quarter length angel, robustly carved in high relief, emerges from a cloud bank on the curved inner face of the console. The outer face of the console bears a tightly wound vine scroll carved in shallower relief with a bird at its center. The bird grasps the vine with its left leg while stretching back to grasp a cluster of grapes in its beak.
- Century
- Third quarter of 12th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1150-1175
- Accession Number
- 1975/1.64
- Medium and Support
- limestone
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Engaged capital with vine rinceau, palmette leaves, and rosettes
- Artist
- Anonymous French
- Physical Description
- Engaged capital carved in grayish, coarse sandstone (arkose). The bell-shaped drum is decorated with a pattern of vine rinceau that encircles palmette leaves in a roughly symmetrical arrangement on each face of the capital. These ornamental plant forms are deeply undercut to highlight the pattern in sharp relief. A pair of volutes decorated with vertical striations springs from the vine rinceau in the upper portion of each face of the capital. A rosette enclosed in a circle appears at the top edge of the center of each face of the capital, above the point where the branches of the volutes diverge.
- Century
- First quarter of 12th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1100-1125
- Accession Number
- 1982/1.273
- Medium and Support
- sandstone
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Buddha, seated in the padmasana pose, in dhyana mudra, attended by Indra
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Gandhara (Ancient Pakistan and Afghanistan)
- Physical Description
- A fragment of a stucco relief sculpture.
- Century
- 2nd-4th century
- Object Creation Date
- 100-399
- Accession Number
- 1961/2.83
- Medium and Support
- stucco relief with traces of polychromy
- relevance
- rank 0.00000