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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
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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
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rank 0.00000
Title
Persian poetry and proverbs anthology manuscript page
Artist
Artist Unknown, Afghanistan, Pakistan or India
Century
late 18th century
Object Creation Date
late 18th century
Accession Number
1959/1.155
Medium and Support
ink on glazed paper
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Title
Digambara Jain manuscript page: Jina and devotees
Artist
Artist Unknown, India, Sirohi School
Physical Description
Multi-colored ink on paper. Reds and golds make up the primary focus colors and are accented by dark blues. Features five figures, two larger figures on the top half of the page and three smaller figures on the bottom. Scene of worship.
Century
18th century
Object Creation Date
circa 18th century
Accession Number
1975/2.177
Medium and Support
ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
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rank 0.00000
Title
Persian poetry and proverbs anthology, manuscript leaf
Artist
Artist Unknown, Afghanistan, Pakistan or India
Century
Late 18th century
Object Creation Date
late 18th century
Accession Number
1987/1.195.10
Medium and Support
ink and color, with touches of gold leaf on thin, glazed paper
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Title
Leaf from a book of hours with a funeral mass
Artist
Gold Scrolls Group
Physical Description
This miniature painting depicts a group of male figures gathered around a coffin draped with a blue cloth. Two pairs of candles set on tall candlesticks are placed at the head and foot of the coffin. To the left of the coffin stand four mourners wearing long gray robes with hoods. Facing them from the other side of the coffin are three tonsured clergymen dressed in white, who look at an open book placed before them. The group stands upon a green tiled floor next to a pink wall. The background is painted red and decorated with an exuberant pattern of gold scrolling foliage motifs.
Artist Life Dates
active circa 1415-1450
Century
15th century
Object Creation Date
1415-1455
Accession Number
1993/2.8
Medium and Support
ink, tempera, gold, and silver alloy on parchment
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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
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rank 0.00000
Title
Digambara Jain manuscript page: Jina and monk with Lakshmi-Narayana & Ardhanarishvara (fol. No. 42)
Artist
Artist Unknown, India, Sirohi School
Physical Description
This work is painted in tones of red, green, dark blue, and orange/gold, against a light background. At the top is a sun with a many rays and a human face. Below this are two seated figures who are unclothed. They are seated on thrones decorated with colorful designs. One has reddish skin and is shown in profile, looking at the sun with hands raised. The other has orange skin and is seated in a lotus posiiton, facing front. Below them is a scene that shows two figures, a woman and a blue-skinned man, turned toward a half-man, half-woman figure who is seated on a tiger rug. These figures are dressed in colorful clothing and adorned with jewelry and hold various objects in their hands.
Century
18th century
Object Creation Date
18th century
Accession Number
1975/2.166
Medium and Support
ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
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rank 0.00000
Title
Digambara Jain manuscript page: Jina venerated by a monk and a royal devotee
Artist
Artist Unknown, India, Sirohi School
Physical Description
This is a brightly colored painting on a light background. It depicts a three- tiered scene with several figures, standing and kneeling, looking toward a central seated figure in the top tier. This male figure is seated in lotus position on a throne, decorated with colorful designs. To his left and right are attendants who fan him. In the middle tier, there is a nude man with long hair, a kneeling woman and a figure who is half-man and half-serpent. In the bottom tier, there are two kneeling men, wearing robes and headdresses, with hands pressed together and eyes gazing upward toward the main figure. They are surrounded by a tiger, a bird, an insect and a serpent.
Century
18th century
Object Creation Date
18th century
Accession Number
1975/2.167
Medium and Support
ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
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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
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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
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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
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