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- Title
- Bhairava: Shiva as Lord of the Cremation Grounds
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Karnataka
- Physical Description
- Shiva as Bhairava stands against a plain pointed arch supported by pilasters with a kirtimukha or face of glory at the top. He stands in a trihanga pose, with his hip thrust to his right and wears platform sandals. He originally has four arms, the front two of which are broken away. His back two arms hold a decorated trident and a drum. He would have held a sword in one hand and a kapala, a cup made out of a scull and a hanging severed head in the other. He is naked, but wears much of jewelry including belts with pendant elements, anklets, armlets, bracelets, necklaces, a band just under his breasts and large circular earrings. He also wears a decorated sacred thread over his left shoulder. His has an elaborate coiffure in curls around the top of his head with a large topknot to one side. His face is badly damaged. Emaciated hungry ghosts attend him, the one to his right dancing with his hands raised above his head with a pot between his legs. The ghost who is on his left stands behind a dog, whose head has broken away. The ghost and the dog would have been playing with the absent severed head, adding to the ghoulish nature of the image.
- Century
- 12th - 13th century
- Object Creation Date
- 12th century -13th century
- Accession Number
- 2001/2.131
- Medium and Support
- stone
- 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
- Vishnu Stele, four-armed Vishnu with two of his attributes personified
- Artist
- Artist Unknown
- Physical Description
- Vishnu stand in a strict unbending pose, samabhanga and has four hands. Reading clockwise from the front right hand, he holds lotus, a club, a discus and a conch. The lotus and conch are also personified with full standing figures at the base below his tow front hands, the lotus as a female figure to his right and the conch as a male figure to his left. On the pointed arch behind the figure a flying figure holding garlands is carved in shallow relief to either side of his crown. He wears a diaphanous lower cloth, the folds of the garment are articulated with a flared section down the center. He wears a long garland down to his knees, a sacred thread and various pieces of jewelry, including bracelets, armlets, a necklace and large earrings and an elaborate crown.
- Century
- 10th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 10th century
- Accession Number
- 2003/1.385
- Medium and Support
- black schist
- 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
- 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
- Seraph, half of a medallion from the west rose window of Reims Cathedral
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Reims, France
- Physical Description
- A lunette-shaped panel composed of red, blue, white, brownish purple and yellowish brown stained glass joined together by lead cames depicting a seraph. Four leafy fronds, taken from another medieval window, have been inserted here between the seraph's head and shoulders. The panel is the upper half of a roundel originally installed in the west rose window of Reims Cathedral.
- Century
- late 13th-early 14th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1280-1310
- Accession Number
- 1979/1.161
- Medium and Support
- colored and painted glass and lead
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Architectural ceiling boss with two dragons, probably from the Church of St. Andrews at Cullompton
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, England
- Physical Description
- Two rampant dragons with open wings, wide flared tails and red-painted eyes stand facing one another with a large plant form held between them.
- Century
- 15th Century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1430
- Accession Number
- 1968/2.46
- Medium and Support
- wood with red polychrome
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Window from the Henry O. Havemeyer house, New York
- Artist
- Louis Comfort Tiffany
- Physical Description
- Window in geometric patterns of white, blue, and amber colored glass set in a modern wooden frame
- Artist Life Dates
- 1848-1933
- Century
- 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1903
- Accession Number
- 1986.146.1A
- Medium and Support
- favrile glass and wood
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Architectural ceiling boss with four faces, probably from the Church of St. Andrew at Cullompton
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, England
- Physical Description
- This ceiling boss features four faces with traces of paint that are arranged in a radial pattern with the crowns of their heads converging on a single, central point. Two of the faces are female, identifiable by the wimples worn on their heads, while the other two, wearing small pointed caps and sporting beards, are male. The symmetrical regularity of the piece is counterbalanced by subtle asymmetries introduced by differences in detail and the sequence of facial types.
- Century
- 15th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1430
- Accession Number
- 1968/2.47
- Medium and Support
- wood with polychrome
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- Title
- Window from the Henry O. Havemeyer house, New York
- Artist
- Louis Comfort Tiffany
- Physical Description
- Window in geometric patterns of white, blue, and amber colored glass set in a modern wooden frame.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1848-1933
- Century
- 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1903
- Accession Number
- 1986.146.1B
- Medium and Support
- favrile glass and wood
- 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
- Window from Henry O. Havemeyer House, New York
- Artist
- Louis Comfort Tiffany
- Physical Description
- White and amber glass (including carbochon pieces) are arranged in a horizontal composition of arabesque design.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1848-1933
- Century
- 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1890-1891
- Accession Number
- 1986.146.2
- Medium and Support
- favrile glass and wood
- 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
- Front door to the Henry O. Havemeyer house, New York (one of a pair)
- Artist
- Louis Comfort Tiffany
- Physical Description
- One of a pair of doors that formed an arched entryway. In the upper two thirds of the door are opalescent square glass "coffers" in an arched composition that corresponds to the silhouette of the doors. The interior-facing side of the doors include curvilinear lead caming, inset with medium-sized beach stones, that frame the glass "coffers". The exterior-facing side of the doors has the "coffers" framed by patinated copper sheeting.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1848-1933
- Century
- 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1890-1891
- Accession Number
- 1986.146.3A
- Medium and Support
- wood, copper, stone and favrile glass
- relevance
- rank 0.00000
- 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
- Front door to the Henry O. Havemeyer House, New York (one of a pair)
- Artist
- Louis Comfort Tiffany
- Physical Description
- One of a pair of doors that formed an arched entryway. In the upper two thirds of the door are opalescent square glass "coffers" in an arched composition that corresponds to the silhouette of the doors. The interior-facing side of the doors include curvilinear lead caming, inset with medium-sized beach stones, that frame the glass "coffers". The exterior-facing side of the doors has the "coffers" framed by patinated copper sheeting.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1848-1933
- Century
- 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1890-1891
- Accession Number
- 1986.146.3B
- Medium and Support
- wood, copper, stone, and favrile glass
- 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