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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 5.94834
- Secondary Keywords
- associated concepts
- hindu
- named gods and goddesses
- people and culture
- religion
- religions
- religions and religious concepts
- subject matter
- 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 5.94834
- Secondary Keywords
- associated concepts
- hindu
- named gods and goddesses
- people and culture
- religion
- religions
- religions and religious concepts
- subject matter
- Title
- Vishnu as Bhogasthanakamurti, accompanied by a pair of female attendants, 1978/2.131 and 1978/2.132
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Tamil Nadu
- Physical Description
- Vishnu stands on a base consisting of a flat square element topped with a series of five round rings. He stands in an unbending pose and has four arms. Reading clockwise from his front right hand, he is in varada mudra, holds a discus, holds a conch, and is on his hip. He wears a decorated lower garment flared out on either side in a pattern. He wears a decorated belt and necklaces, a sacred thread and shoulder loops, bracelets and armlets, earrings and a crown. The jewelry and crown is highlighted with gold paint as is his clothing and the two attributes.
- Century
- 17th-18th century
- Object Creation Date
- 17th century - 18th century
- Accession Number
- 1978/2.123
- Medium and Support
- bronze
- relevance
- rank 5.92962
- Secondary Keywords
- associated concepts
- hindu
- people and culture
- religion
- religions
- religions and religious concepts
- subject matter
- Title
- Iconography series: Brisha (female monkey, riding a bull)
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Rajasthan, Jaipur School
- Physical Description
- Two figures, Anjana and a bull 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. Near the top of the image in the background there some trees and sky are visible.
- Century
- 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1840
- Accession Number
- 1988/1.82
- Medium and Support
- ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
- relevance
- rank 5.89373
- Secondary Keywords
- animals and creatures
- associated concepts
- mammals
- people and culture
- religions
- religions and religious concepts
- 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 5.89373
- Secondary Keywords
- associated concepts
- people and culture
- religion
- religions
- religions and religious concepts
- subject matter
- Title
- Bhu Devi
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Tamil Nadu
- Physical Description
- Bhudevi stands in a tribhanga pose (with three bends) with her left arm hanging pendant to her side and holding a lotus bud in her right hand. She leans towards the figure of Vishnu in the grouping of three bronzes. She stands on a base consisting of a flat square element topped with a series of five round rings. She wears a decorated lower garment flared out on either side in a pattern. She wears a decorated belt and necklaces, bracelets and armlets, with shoulder loops, earrings and a crown. The jewelry and crown is highlighted with gold paint as is his clothing and the two attributes. She does not wear a band across her breasts, as does Shridevi in groupings with Vishnu and Bhudevi.
- Century
- 17th-18th century
- Object Creation Date
- 17th century - 18th century
- Accession Number
- 1978/2.132
- Medium and Support
- bronze
- relevance
- rank 5.89373
- Secondary Keywords
- associated concepts
- people and culture
- religion
- religions
- religions and religious concepts
- subject matter
- Title
- Tara, six-armed, with attendant Buddha and Bodhisattva
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India
- Century
- 17th-18th century
- Object Creation Date
- 17th century
- Accession Number
- 1978/2.105
- Medium and Support
- bronze
- relevance
- rank 5.89373
- Secondary Keywords
- associated concepts
- people and culture
- religion
- religions
- religions and religious concepts
- subject matter
- Title
- Casket with inscription in floriated Kufic script
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Iran
- Century
- 12th century
- Object Creation Date
- 12th century
- Accession Number
- 1959/1.113
- Medium and Support
- bronze
- relevance
- rank 5.83338
- Secondary Keywords
- associated concepts
- containers
- objects we use
- people and culture
- religions
- religions and religious concepts
![Malli shrine, dated VS 1528 [1471 A.D.]; Artist Unknown, India, Gujarat](https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1975-sl-2.121/1975_2.121.JPG?lasttype=boolean;lastview=reslist;med=1;resnum=9;size=50;sort=relevance;start=1;subview=detail;view=entry;rgn1=musart_keywords2;select1=phrase;q1=religions){kind=link}
- Title
- Malli shrine, dated VS 1528 [1471 A.D.]
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Gujarat
- Physical Description
- The jina Malli sits in the lotus position on an inlayed cushion on a tiered throne. Seated with his hands folded in a gesture of meditation, he is surrounded by a number of figures representing other jinas, attendants and demigods. In the center in front of the throne sits the goddess Ambika with a child on her lap. On the first tier of the throne sit two figures that may represent donors. On the next left are nine mounds representing the nine planets [navagraha], five to his right and four to his left. At the base of his seat are two stylized lions and this is flanked by a male and female demigod. On the arch surrounding the figure at his level a standing jina figure is to each side and cauri bearer is on the outside of each of them. At his shoulders, the cross bars of the throne back end in stylized makara heads with jewels hanging from their mouths. A seated jina adorns the arch to each side of his head and elephants surmount them with an umbrella over his head with a dancing figure atop it. The whole is surmounted by an auspicious lota or pot. Diamond shaped copper and silver pieces adorn the pillow and parts of the throne back and silver inlay highlight his eyes and chest jewel.
- Century
- 15th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1471
- Accession Number
- 1975/2.121
- Medium and Support
- brass with copper and silver inlay
- relevance
- rank 5.73805
- Secondary Keywords
- associated concepts
- people and culture
- religion
- religions
- religions and religious concepts
- 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 5.66294
- Secondary Keywords
- associated concepts
- hindu
- named gods and goddesses
- people and culture
- people and occupations
- religion
- religions
- religions and religious concepts
- standing
- subject matter
- Title
- Flat-rimmed Bowl with painted abstract design
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Iran
- Physical Description
- A deep bowl with wide mouth and small base. Both the interior and exterior have been incised for decorations.
- Century
- 13th century
- Object Creation Date
- 13th century
- Accession Number
- 1957/1.70
- Medium and Support
- fritware with blue underglaze painting and green glaze
- relevance
- rank 5.64418
- Secondary Keywords
- associated concepts
- containers
- containers by form
- geographic and political locations
- middle east (general region)
- objects we use
- people and culture
- religions
- religions and religious concepts
- vessels
- Title
- Squat bottle with everted rim
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Iran
- Physical Description
- A squat bottle with everted rim.
- Century
- 17th century
- Object Creation Date
- 17th century
- Accession Number
- 1957/1.90
- Medium and Support
- earthenware with glaze
- relevance
- rank 5.64418
- Secondary Keywords
- associated concepts
- containers
- containers by form
- geographic and political locations
- middle east (general region)
- objects we use
- people and culture
- religions
- religions and religious concepts
- vessels
- Title
- Mirror with scene of "Alexander's Ascension"
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Turkey, Central Anatolia
- Century
- 12th-13th century
- Object Creation Date
- 12th century - 13th century
- Accession Number
- 1959/1.115
- Medium and Support
- bronze
- relevance
- rank 5.63754
- Secondary Keywords
- animals and creatures
- associated concepts
- furnishings
- furnishings by form or function
- objects we use
- people and culture
- religions
- religions and religious concepts
- Title
- Buddha, Seated in Bhumisparsa Mudrâ, on a Throne
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Thailand
- Century
- 18th-19th century
- Object Creation Date
- 18th century - 19th century
- Accession Number
- 2005/1.449
- Medium and Support
- lacquered and gilt wood
- relevance
- rank 5.59060
- Secondary Keywords
- associated concepts
- people and culture
- religions
- religions and religious concepts
- Title
- Column with Four Jinas and Attendants (Jain Marble Column)
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Rajasthan or Gujarat, Jain
- Physical Description
- This column fragment consists of a base with a seated jina in the center with a tiered umbrella above him under an elaborate arch flanked by two figures to either side—two male and dancing females at the outside. Three virtually identical bands above it represent smaller seated jinas in less elaborate pavilions. A pair of male cauri bearers with a devotional male on the outside flanks each of the two central figures. The top figure is flanked by the pair of cauri bearers, but with an elephant surmounted by a lion figure on either side. There is no cognizance present to identify any of the four jinas, all are depicted in lotus position and their hands in dhyana mudra, a meditation gesture.
- Century
- 12th - 13th century
- Object Creation Date
- 12th century - 13th century
- Accession Number
- 2004/1.151
- Medium and Support
- marble
- relevance
- rank 5.59060
- Secondary Keywords
- associated concepts
- people and culture
- religions
- religions and religious concepts
- Title
- Vase
- Artist
- Iran, Sultanabad
- Century
- 16th-17th century
- Object Creation Date
- 16th century - 17th century
- Accession Number
- 1972/2.140
- Medium and Support
- fritware (ground quartz & white clay) with blue underglaze and lustre overglaze
- relevance
- rank 5.55865
- Secondary Keywords
- associated concepts
- containers
- containers by form
- objects we use
- people and culture
- religions
- religions and religious concepts
- vessels
- Title
- Miniature jar with zigzag design
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Iran
- Century
- 16th-17th century
- Object Creation Date
- 16th century - 17th century
- Accession Number
- 1972/2.139
- Medium and Support
- earthenware with luster and transparent glaze
- relevance
- rank 5.55865
- Secondary Keywords
- associated concepts
- containers
- containers by form
- objects we use
- people and culture
- religions
- religions and religious concepts
- vessels
- Title
- Shallow bowl with everted rim
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Iran
- Century
- 14th-15th century
- Object Creation Date
- 14th century - 15th century
- Accession Number
- 1957/1.82
- Medium and Support
- earthenware with glaze
- relevance
- rank 5.55865
- Secondary Keywords
- associated concepts
- containers
- containers by form
- objects we use
- people and culture
- religions
- religions and religious concepts
- vessels
- Title
- Bowl with foliate designs, after Cizhou ware
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Iran
- Century
- 18th-19th century
- Object Creation Date
- 18th century - 19th century
- Accession Number
- 1957/1.94
- Medium and Support
- earthenware with glaze
- relevance
- rank 5.55865
- Secondary Keywords
- associated concepts
- containers
- containers by form
- objects we use
- people and culture
- religions
- religions and religious concepts
- vessels
- Title
- Black bowl with blue geometric design
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Iran
- Century
- 14th century
- Object Creation Date
- 14th century
- Accession Number
- 1972/2.155
- Medium and Support
- black lusterware with overglaze blue enamel (?)
- relevance
- rank 5.55865
- Secondary Keywords
- associated concepts
- containers
- containers by form
- objects we use
- people and culture
- religions
- religions and religious concepts
- vessels
- Title
- Bowl with striped and arabesque designs
- Artist
- Iran, Sultanabad
- Century
- 14th century
- Object Creation Date
- 14th century
- Accession Number
- 1972/2.154
- Medium and Support
- fritware (ground quartz & white clay) with blue & turquoise underglaze painting
- relevance
- rank 5.55865
- Secondary Keywords
- associated concepts
- containers
- containers by form
- objects we use
- people and culture
- religions
- religions and religious concepts
- vessels
- Title
- Pitcher
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Syria
- Century
- 12th-13th century
- Object Creation Date
- 12th century - 13th century
- Accession Number
- 1972/2.151
- Medium and Support
- earthenware with turquoise and green glaze
- relevance
- rank 5.55865
- Secondary Keywords
- associated concepts
- containers
- containers by form
- objects we use
- people and culture
- religions
- religions and religious concepts
- vessels
- Title
- Vase
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Iran
- Century
- 16th-17th century
- Object Creation Date
- 16th century - 17th century
- Accession Number
- 1972/2.128
- Medium and Support
- stoneware with iridescent turquoise glaze
- relevance
- rank 5.55865
- Secondary Keywords
- associated concepts
- containers
- containers by form
- objects we use
- people and culture
- religions
- religions and religious concepts
- vessels
- Title
- Broad-shouldered vase with narrow, flaring foot and high collar mouth
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Iran
- Century
- 16th-17th century
- Object Creation Date
- 16th century - 17th century
- Accession Number
- 1972/2.141
- Medium and Support
- fritware (ground quartz and white clay) with blue underglaze painting
- relevance
- rank 5.55865
- Secondary Keywords
- associated concepts
- containers
- containers by form
- objects we use
- people and culture
- religions
- religions and religious concepts
- vessels
- Title
- Jug, narrow neck, single handle, band of decorative inscriptions at shoulder
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Iran
- Century
- 10th-12th century
- Object Creation Date
- 10th century - 12th century
- Accession Number
- 1959/1.91
- Medium and Support
- molded terracotta
- relevance
- rank 5.55865
- Secondary Keywords
- associated concepts
- containers
- containers by form
- objects we use
- people and culture
- religions
- religions and religious concepts
- vessels
- Title
- Bowl with inverted rim
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Iran
- Century
- 11th century
- Object Creation Date
- 11th century
- Accession Number
- 1957/1.56
- Medium and Support
- earthenware with splashed green and yellow glaze
- relevance
- rank 5.55865
- Secondary Keywords
- associated concepts
- containers
- containers by form
- objects we use
- people and culture
- religions
- religions and religious concepts
- vessels
- Title
- Bottle
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Iran
- Century
- 14th century
- Object Creation Date
- 14th century
- Accession Number
- 1972/2.149
- Medium and Support
- earthenware with blue glaze
- relevance
- rank 5.55865
- Secondary Keywords
- associated concepts
- containers
- containers by form
- objects we use
- people and culture
- religions
- religions and religious concepts
- vessels
- Title
- Visnhu triad: goddess Shri Devi, 1 of 3 figures
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Tamil Nadu
- Physical Description
- Shridevi stands in a tribhanga pose (with three bends) with her right arm hanging pendant to her side and holding a lotus bud in her left hand. She leans towards the figure of Vishnu in the grouping of three bronzes. She stands on a base consisting of a flat square element topped with a series of five round rings. She wears a decorated lower garment flared out on either side in a pattern. She wears a decorated belt and necklaces, bracelets and armlets, with shoulder loops, earrings and a crown. The jewelry and crown is highlighted with gold paint as is his clothing and the two attributes. She also wears a band across her breasts, a characteristic of Shridevi in groupings with Vishnu and his other consort, Bhudevi.
- Century
- 17th-18th century
- Object Creation Date
- 17th century - 18th century
- Accession Number
- 1978/2.131
- Medium and Support
- bronze
- relevance
- rank 5.48843
- Secondary Keywords
- associated concepts
- figures
- people and culture
- people and occupations
- religion
- religions
- religions and religious concepts
- Title
- Miniature altar fragment: Seated Buddha flanked by two attendants
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, China
- Century
- 6th century
- Object Creation Date
- 6th century
- Accession Number
- 1981/2.73
- Medium and Support
- bronze
- relevance
- rank 5.48843
- Secondary Keywords
- associated concepts
- figures
- people and culture
- people and occupations
- religion
- religions
- religions and religious concepts
- Title
- Votive tablet of a seated Buddha in dhyana mudra
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India
- Accession Number
- 1990/1.177
- Medium and Support
- terracotta
- relevance
- rank 5.48843
- Secondary Keywords
- associated concepts
- figures
- people and culture
- people and occupations
- religion
- religions
- religions and religious concepts
- Title
- Buddha, seated in the ardha padmasana pose, in dhayana mudra, sheltered by Mucalinda (Lopburi style)
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Thailand
- Century
- 12th century
- Object Creation Date
- 12th century
- Accession Number
- 1993/2.37
- Medium and Support
- sandstone with traces of polychromy
- relevance
- rank 5.43557
- Secondary Keywords
- associated concepts
- conditions and effects
- descriptors
- figures (representations)
- objects we use
- people and culture
- religions
- religions and religious concepts
- visual works
- visual works by subject type
![Untitled [same as 1987/1.241, entitled "Buddha (B)"; Kannon]; image of a famous 7th-century sculpture at Hôryûji, Nara; Saitô Kiyoshi](https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1987-sl-1.240/1987_1.240.JPG?lasttype=boolean;lastview=reslist;med=1;resnum=32;size=50;sort=relevance;start=1;subview=detail;view=entry;rgn1=musart_keywords2;select1=phrase;q1=religions){kind=link}
- Title
- Untitled [same as 1987/1.241, entitled "Buddha (B)"; Kannon]; image of a famous 7th-century sculpture at Hôryûji, Nara
- Artist
- Saitô Kiyoshi
- Physical Description
- Despite the title given by the artist, this print is a highly abstracted representation of a famous 7th century sculpture of the bodhisattva Avalokitesvara (J. Kannon), in the collection of Hôryûji Temple, Nara.
- Artist Life Dates
- (active 1907 - 1997)
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1959
- Accession Number
- 1987/1.240
- Medium and Support
- color woodblock print on paper
- relevance
- rank 5.43557
- Secondary Keywords
- asia (continent)
- associated concepts
- geographic and political locations
- objects we use
- people and culture
- religions
- religions and religious concepts
- visual works
- visual works by subject type
- Title
- Durga as slayer of the Buffalo Demon (Mahishasuramardini)
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Rajasthan
- Century
- 16th century
- Object Creation Date
- 16th century
- Accession Number
- 1976/2.48
- Medium and Support
- bronze
- relevance
- rank 5.43557
- Secondary Keywords
- animals and creatures
- associated concepts
- buffalo
- mammals
- objects we use
- people
- people (agents)
- people and culture
- people by state or condition
- religions
- religions and religious concepts
- weapons and ammunition
- 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 5.42892
- Secondary Keywords
- animals and creatures
- associated concepts
- components
- components and systems
- components by specific context
- mammals
- people and culture
- religions
- religions and religious concepts
- tool and equipment components
- 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 5.42892
- Secondary Keywords
- animals and creatures
- associated concepts
- mammals
- objects
- people
- people (agents)
- people and culture
- people by state or condition
- religions
- religions and religious concepts
- swords
- weaponry
- Title
- Virgin and Child with St. John
- Artist
- Raphael Sadeler I
- Physical Description
- This small black and white engraving depicts a half-length portrait of a woman seated and cloaked in drapery who is attending to and two young boys. The woman supports the boy who looks out toward the viewer while both boys reach toward a plate of fruit resting on the woman’s arm in the center of the composition. The figures are arranged against a black backdrop with a raised curtain framing them at the top and at the upper left.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1560 or 1561 - circa 1628 or 1632
- Object Creation Date
- n.d.
- Accession Number
- 2012/2.208
- Medium and Support
- engraving on medium laid paper
- relevance
- rank 5.42892
- Secondary Keywords
- allegory and literature
- associated concepts
- bible
- jesus christ
- new testament
- people
- people (agents)
- people and culture
- people by state or condition
- religions
- religions and religious concepts
- Title
- Hanuman, standing, in anjali mudra (part of a Rama shrine)
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Tamil Nadu
- Physical Description
- Hanuman is depicted with a human body and a monkey head. He stands in an unbending posture of devotion with his hands held on his chest with the palms together in a gesture of prayer, namaskara. He wears a lower garment that is decorated with belts and pendant loops and the cloth has formal decorative folds cascading down his sides. He wears a decorated belt and necklaces, bracelets and armlets, with shoulder loops, earrings, and a simple crown with a leaf shape at the top. He wears a dagger at his waist and his tail curves up behind him making a loop top frame his head like a halo.
- Century
- 18th century
- Object Creation Date
- 18th century
- Accession Number
- 1979/2.55
- Medium and Support
- bronze
- relevance
- rank 5.42116
- Secondary Keywords
- animals and creatures
- associated concepts
- hindu
- mammals
- named gods and goddesses
- people
- people (agents)
- people and culture
- people by state or condition
- religion
- religions
- religions and religious concepts
- subject matter
- Title
- Hanuman
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Tamil Nadu
- Physical Description
- Hanuman stands on a tiered base, which starts square and sloped, then is square and straight up and then round sloped and ringed. He has a human body and a monkey’s head. He stands in an unbending stance with his hands in anjali mudra, held up to his chest with palms together in a prayer gesture. He wears a diaphanous garment from the waist down with only the edged decorated and depicted with a series of belts and sashes hanging in front of it. He wears a number of necklaces and armlets. His face is very worn and far less realistic than the body with the large round eyes incised with eyebrows above and a large circle on his forehead. His mouth is a simple slit.
- Century
- 17th century
- Object Creation Date
- 17th century
- Accession Number
- 1976/2.53
- Medium and Support
- bronze
- relevance
- rank 5.42116
- Secondary Keywords
- animals and creatures
- associated concepts
- hindu
- mammals
- named gods and goddesses
- people
- people (agents)
- people and culture
- people by state or condition
- religion
- religions
- religions and religious concepts
- subject matter
- Title
- Mukha-Linga
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, South India
- Physical Description
- This phallic representation of the god Shiva appears as a columnar head placed on a base with two rounded moldings on top of a series of square ones. His neck is fully cylindrical and the face is modeled on that cylinder. The eyes are wide open and a bow shaped eyebrow curves over them. He has a flared nose and luxuriant moustache over a narrow but full lips and a short ball like chin. A ‘U’ shaped element consisting of lines and a pearl motif probably represents his beard, perhaps held up in a tight net. His forehead is decorated with three raise lines that go straight across and his crown is basically flat over his hear decorated with a bunch of peak forms in the center with a finial surmounting the whole. His ears fan out almost like handles to a jar and are decorated with stylized arabesques. A five-headed snake hood rises behind the head and has a rib down its center and scale motives incised towards the bottom an ‘S’ shapes t denote the cobra ‘eyes’ to each side.
- Century
- 18th-19th century
- Object Creation Date
- 19th century
- Accession Number
- 1981/2.52A
- Medium and Support
- bronze
- relevance
- rank 5.41438
- Secondary Keywords
- animals and creatures
- associated concepts
- hinduism
- people
- people (agents)
- people and culture
- people by state or condition
- religions
- religions and religious concepts
- reptiles
- snakes
- Title
- Flask with molded decor
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Iran
- Century
- 10th-12th century
- Object Creation Date
- 10th century - 12th century
- Accession Number
- 1959/1.89
- Medium and Support
- molded desig(n) on earthenware (?)
- relevance
- rank 5.41438
- Secondary Keywords
- associated concepts
- containers
- containers by function or context
- containers for storing or transporting food
- culinary containers
- objects we use
- people and culture
- religions
- religions and religious concepts
- Title
- Fragment from a Markendeya Purana scroll: Vishnu on the pipal leaf
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Northern Andhra Pradesh
- Physical Description
- The blue four-armed Vishnu is shown lying on a gigantic pipal leaf with his left leg crossed over his right leg; as his female consort gently strokes his leg, he awakens from a long sleep. Another woman fans him. From his navel sprouts a lotus, bearing the four-headed creator god, Brahma, and rishis or sages appear in the upper branches of the pipal tree. Vishnu has four arms carrying a discus and a conch in his back hands and the lower left arm is extended pointing towards the women at his feet while the lower right am is cross towards his stomach.
- The iconography is further compounded by the image in the lower register of a tortoise at the bottom of the ocean of milk, bearing a mountain on his back. The tortoise is in fact Kurma, another manifestation of Vishnu, supporting the cosmic axis. Elephants have gathered to pay homage to him, while in a small inset at right, a worshipper pays homage to Shiva, Vishnu, and Brahma. A large red figure faces the scene to the right accompanied by small blue figures to his sides as if behind him. Two sages, one horse-headed, are to the upper right.
- Century
- 18th century
- Object Creation Date
- late 18th century
- Accession Number
- 1980/2.306
- Medium and Support
- ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on cloth
- relevance
- rank 5.40798
- Secondary Keywords
- animals
- associated concepts
- hindu
- mammals
- named gods and goddesses
- people
- people (agents)
- people and culture
- people by state or condition
- religion
- religions
- religions and religious concepts
- subject matter
- the natural world
- Title
- Peacock
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Iran
- Physical Description
- A bronze statue in the shape of a peacock, this piece has engraved decorations and is made in the Seljuk style of metalwork.
- Century
- 12th century
- Object Creation Date
- 12th century
- Accession Number
- 1959/1.116
- Medium and Support
- bronze with engraved decoration
- relevance
- rank 5.40798
- Secondary Keywords
- animals and creatures
- associated concepts
- birds
- descriptors
- geographic and political locations
- middle east (general region)
- object genres
- object genres by material
- people and culture
- religions
- religions and religious concepts
- Title
- Mukha-Linga
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, South India
- Physical Description
- This phallic representation of the god Shiva appears as a columnar head placed on a base with two rounded moldings on top of a series of square ones. His neck is fully cylindrical and the face is modeled on that cylinder. The eyes are wide open and a bow shaped eyebrow curves over them. He has a flared nose and luxuriant moustache over a narrow but full lips and a short ball like chin. A ‘U’ shaped element consisting of lines and a pearl motif probably represents his beard, perhaps held up in a tight net. His forehead is decorated with three raise lines that go straight across and his crown is basically flat over his hear decorated with a bunch of peak forms in the center with a finial surmounting the whole. His ears fan out almost like handles to a jar and are decorated with stylized arabesques. A five-headed snake hood rises behind the head and has a rib down its center and scale motives incised towards the bottom an ‘S’ shapes t denote the cobra ‘eyes’ to each side.
- Century
- 18th-19th century
- Object Creation Date
- 18th century - 19th century
- Accession Number
- 1981/2.52B
- Medium and Support
- bronze
- relevance
- rank 5.39175
- Secondary Keywords
- animals and creatures
- associated concepts
- hindu
- hinduism
- named gods and goddesses
- people
- people (agents)
- people and culture
- people by state or condition
- religion
- religions
- religions and religious concepts
- reptiles
- snakes
- subject matter
- Title
- Shiva, in his form as ekamukhalinga
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Maharashtra
- Physical Description
- Possibly used to cover a linga, a phallic representation of the god Shiva or representing a linga decorated with a face of Shiva, we find a stylized face on a tall, thick cylindrical neck. He is depicted with large, wide open eyes consisting of a double line above and below with a heavy eyebrows above them. A third eye is between them in a vertical direction. He has thick lips and wears a luxurious moustache. A decorated band fits tightly under his chin and may represent a decorated beard of necklaces. At the bottom of the band is a stylized linga on a base, looking like a cross on a line. His ears sport snake earrings and his hair is worn combed back from the forehead in wide matted bands.
- Century
- 18th century
- Object Creation Date
- 18th century
- Accession Number
- 1977/2.46
- Medium and Support
- bronze
- relevance
- rank 5.39014
- Secondary Keywords
- associated concepts
- hindu
- people
- people (agents)
- people and culture
- people by state or condition
- religion
- religions
- religions and religious concepts
- subject matter
- Title
- Bird
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Syria
- Century
- 13th-14th century
- Object Creation Date
- 13th century - 14th century
- Accession Number
- 1961/1.190
- Medium and Support
- iridescent glass
- relevance
- rank 5.39014
- Secondary Keywords
- animals and creatures
- associated concepts
- objects we use
- people and culture
- religions
- religions and religious concepts
- visual works
- visual works by medium or technique
- Title
- Seated Buddha
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, China
- Century
- 5th century
- Object Creation Date
- first half of 5th century
- Accession Number
- 1964/1.93
- Medium and Support
- bronze
- relevance
- rank 5.38805
- Secondary Keywords
- associated concepts
- figures
- people and culture
- people and occupations
- religions
- religions and religious concepts
- Title
- Standing figure of Shiva
- Artist
- India, Central India
- Physical Description
- Shiva stands in an unbending pose and the sculpture is broken just below the knees. He is two-armed and his right hand is raised with his palm outward. His left arm is broken away. He wears a short lower garment with incised lines delineating folds and he is ithyphallic, his upraised penis extending up from behind his belt. He wears simple jewelry, a belt, armlets, a bracelet on the one wrist still extant and a simple beaded necklace. There is an auspicious diamond pattern in the middle of his chest. He has a fleshy face with a full mouth and large eyes, a third eye is incised on his forehead. His hair is done in an elaborate coiffure piled high.
- Century
- 10th-11th century
- Object Creation Date
- 10th century - 11th century
- Accession Number
- 1998/1.181
- Medium and Support
- sandstone
- relevance
- rank 5.37192
- Secondary Keywords
- associated concepts
- hindu
- named gods and goddesses
- people
- people (agents)
- people and culture
- people and occupations
- people by state or condition
- religion
- religions
- religions and religious concepts
- subject matter
- 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 5.37006
- Secondary Keywords
- associated concepts
- figures
- hindu
- named gods and goddesses
- people
- people (agents)
- people and culture
- people and occupations
- people by state or condition
- religion
- religions
- religions and religious concepts
- subject matter
- Title
- Padmavati with Parshva
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Maharashtra
- Physical Description
- Padmavati sits on a raised tiered square base. She sits on a narrow rounded seat with one leg crossed in her lap and the other slightly pendant. She has four arms and the right back one is broken. On the palm of her front right hand which is in the gesture of reassurance. She holds a mango in her front left hand and the base of some vegetative form in the back left hand. Her tight fitting lower garment is decorated with incised lines in stripes and incised lines delineate her necklace and encircle her breasts. She wears large plain earrings [?] and a conical crown. Her head is surmounted by a seven headed snake hood, symbolizing her snake nature and seated atop the hood is a figure of the jina Pashva in a half lotus position and his hands folded in a gesture of meditation. He is turn is toped by a five headed snake hood signifying Padmavati’s consort the nagaraja Dharanendra.
- Century
- 18th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1709
- Accession Number
- 1977/2.47
- Medium and Support
- brass
- relevance
- rank 5.35381
- Secondary Keywords
- associated concepts
- people
- people (agents)
- people and culture
- people by state or condition
- religion
- religions
- religions and religious concepts
- subject matter
- 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 5.35381
- Secondary Keywords
- animals and creatures
- associated concepts
- mammals
- people
- people (agents)
- people and culture
- people by state or condition
- religions
- religions and religious concepts