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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
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Title
Rajasthan Figure of Goddess Druga with Her right Foot on the Buffalo, her lower left arm holding the demon as it emerges from the decapitated buffalo
Artist
Artist Unknown, India, Rajasthan
Century
18th century
Object Creation Date
18th century
Accession Number
1978/2.72
Medium and Support
bronze
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rank 10.49912
Title
Figure of a Female Drummer
Artist
Artist Unknown, India, Gujarat
Century
18th century
Object Creation Date
circa 18th century
Accession Number
1987/1.250
Medium and Support
carved wood
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rank 10.49912
Title
Bhairava
Artist
Artist Unknown, India, Maharashtra
Century
16th-18th century
Object Creation Date
16th century - 17th century
Accession Number
1976/2.44
Medium and Support
bronze
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rank 10.49912
Title
Equestrian Figure: armed village hero on horseback holding a shield in his left hand and a sword in his right hand
Artist
Artist Unknown, India, Rajasthan
Century
17th-18th century
Object Creation Date
17th century - 18th century
Accession Number
1976/2.69
Medium and Support
bronze
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rank 10.49912
Title
Shiva Shrine (one of three) (small folk bronze)
Artist
Artist Unknown, India, Rajasthan
Century
16th-18th century
Object Creation Date
16th century - 18th century
Accession Number
1979/2.54
Medium and Support
bronze
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rank 10.49912
Title
Krishna in double vitarka mudra
Artist
Artist Unknown, India, Bengal
Century
17th-18th century
Object Creation Date
17th century - 18th century
Accession Number
1976/2.56
Medium and Support
bronze
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rank 10.49912
Title
Ambika
Artist
Artist Unknown, India, Gujarat
Physical Description
Ambika sits above her stylized lion mount with a long body and with its tail curled to add support to the seated figure above. She sits with one leg pendant. She has four arms, the back two hold stylized mango clusters and her front right hand holds a large mango. Her left-hand cups a child seated on her left knee. Another child stands on the base to her right. The backing takes on a throne-like form, but she appears to float in front of it, the square-ish base is pierced and the arch of the back is surmounted by an auspicious pot form with leaves creating a volute shape to either side. The sculpture is solid brass, but the eyes and an ornament in her headdress are inlayed with silver.
Century
17th century
Object Creation Date
17th century
Accession Number
1975/2.114
Medium and Support
brass with silver inlay
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rank 10.49912
Title
Hanuman (small folk bronze)
Artist
Artist Unknown, India, Maharashtra
Century
18th century
Object Creation Date
18th century
Accession Number
1977/2.92
Medium and Support
lead
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rank 10.49912
Title
Vajri
Artist
Artist Unknown, India, Rajasthan
Century
18th-19th century
Object Creation Date
18th century - 19th century
Accession Number
1981/2.54
Medium and Support
bronze
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rank 10.49912
Title
Equestrian Figure
Artist
Artist Unknown, India, Rajasthan
Century
18th century
Object Creation Date
18th century
Accession Number
1978/2.86
Medium and Support
bronze
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rank 10.49912
Title
Palm Leaf from an Unidentified Manuscript with Devanagiri (?) script
Artist
Artist Unknown, India, Gujarat
Century
17th century?
Object Creation Date
17th century
Accession Number
1997/2.41
Medium and Support
incised palm-leaf darkened with coal dust
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rank 10.49912
Title
Standing Hanuman, Upright figure of monkey God with hands in anjali position
Artist
Artist Unknown, India, Maharashtra
Century
16th-18th century
Object Creation Date
16th century - 17th century
Accession Number
1976/2.51
Medium and Support
bronze
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rank 10.49912
Title
Four-armed Vishnu
Artist
Artist Unknown, India, Rajasthan
Physical Description
Vishnu stands with his legs apart holding his four attributes in his hands. Reading in clockwise direction from his right front hand he holds: his club, discus, conch and lotus, here a rather flat object cupped in his palm. His back two arms are extremely short. The figure is encircled with a decorated arch with a line of beads and triangular shaped openings around them. A stylized sun and moon are to either side of Vishnu’s head. He wears a variety of simple, lumpy jewelry at his feet are a horse to his right and a bull or cow to his left and between them are three rings lying flat on the base. At the front of the base are seven stylized horses, identifying this as a combination figure: Vishnu and the sun god Surya, whose chariot is pulled by seven horses.
Century
18th-19th century
Object Creation Date
18th century - 19th century
Accession Number
1977/2.49
Medium and Support
bronze
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rank 10.49912
Title
Vishnu
Artist
Artist Unknown, India, Bengal
Century
19th century?
Object Creation Date
18th century
Accession Number
1979/2.68
Medium and Support
bronze
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rank 10.49912
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
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rank 10.49912
Title
Eight-armed Durga
Artist
Artist Unknown, India, Maharashtra
Century
18th century
Object Creation Date
18th century
Accession Number
1978/2.87
Medium and Support
bronze
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rank 10.49912
Title
Torso of a Conch Bearer
Artist
Artist Unknown, India, Rajasthan
Century
10th-11th century
Object Creation Date
10th century - 11th century
Accession Number
1987/1.364
Medium and Support
black stone
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rank 10.49912
Title
Plate Inscribed with Flying Figure of Hanuman Holding a Flag, Mace and Spear
Artist
Artist Unknown, India, Rajasthan
Physical Description
Hanuman is depicted with a human body and a monkey head. The image is incised on the plate and his body is entirely textured with characters in the devanagari script. Often merely the letter ‘r’ designating the god Rama with whom he is associated. He is in a striding posture and there are a number of sections of text scattered around the image. At his feet is a human figure walking in the opposite direction. He holds a double flag consisting of two triangular shapes facing him in his left hand along with a thin club. One appears to emanating from his mouth? His right hand is lifted with an arrow above it and his tail curves behind him. There is also a small altar depicting the two feet of Rama in the area between his outstretched leg and the end of a scarf wrapped around his body.
Century
18th-19th century
Object Creation Date
18th century - 19th century
Accession Number
1978/2.89
Medium and Support
copper
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rank 10.49912
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
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rank 10.49912
Title
Vishnu on Ananta
Artist
Artist Unknown, India, Kashmir
Physical Description
Two figures in a landscape; one a reclining blue-skinned figure, the other a seated female
Century
18th century
Object Creation Date
18th century
Accession Number
1985/1.132
Medium and Support
opaque watercolor and gold on paper
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rank 10.49912
Title
Hanuman
Artist
Artist Unknown, India, Maharashtra
Century
19th century
Object Creation Date
19th century
Accession Number
1976/2.54
Medium and Support
bronze
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rank 10.49912
Title
Village deity
Artist
Artist Unknown, India, Rajasthan
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
20th century
Accession Number
1977/2.68
Medium and Support
bronze
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rank 10.49912
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
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rank 10.49912
Title
Ambika, mother Goddess holding a child on her left leg with feet resting on a lion
Artist
Artist Unknown, India, Gujarat
Century
16th century
Object Creation Date
16th century
Accession Number
1976/2.58
Medium and Support
bronze
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rank 10.49912
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
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rank 10.38494
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
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rank 10.38494
Title
Digambara Jain manuscript page: Jina and worshipper
Artist
Artist Unknown, India, Sirohi School
Physical Description
In the upper register of this folio a woman holds a child who is crowned and adorned with jewels. The golden hue of the infant, along with the fan held above their heads signifies the child’s importance. They sit in devotion before a Jina, indicated by his nudity—a trademark of Digambara Jina and a sign of purity.
Century
18th century
Object Creation Date
circa 18th century
Accession Number
1975/2.165
Medium and Support
ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
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rank 10.38494
Title
Sutra Writings
Artist
Artist Unknown, India, Tamil Nadu
Century
19th century
Object Creation Date
circa 19th century
Accession Number
1997/1.180
Medium and Support
incised palm-leaf, darkened with charcoal dust
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rank 10.38494
Title
Vishnu
Artist
Artist Unknown, India, Kerala Workshop
Century
16th – 18th century
Object Creation Date
16th century - 18th century
Accession Number
1979/2.38
Medium and Support
bronze
relevance
rank 10.38494
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 10.38494
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 10.38494
Title
Bhagavati (Bhairava)
Artist
Artist Unknown, India, Kerala Workshop
Century
16th century
Object Creation Date
16th century
Accession Number
1981/2.58
Medium and Support
bronze
relevance
rank 10.38494
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
relevance
rank 10.38494
Title
Folk Durga
Artist
Artist Unknown, India, Tamil Nadu
Century
18th century
Object Creation Date
circa 18th century
Accession Number
1975/2.110
Medium and Support
bronze
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rank 10.38494
Title
Rama
Artist
Artist Unknown, India, Tamil Nadu
Physical Description
The two-handed figure stands in relaxed posture on a base consisting of square and round forms. At the bottom of each shape stylized lotus petals are incised. His right hand is extended outwards and would have been holding an arrow and he left arm is extended up to his die to hold a bow. He wears much of jewelry including anklets bracelets, armlets, necklace and shoulder loops, belts with pendant elements and a sacred thread reaching just below his waist. He wears a lower garment with incised lines delineating the folds and sections that flare out to either side. He wears an elaborate crown. One element extends over his right shoulder, which may either be part of his quiver of arrows or a broken section of a halo. He wears a conical headdress incised with a worn pattern. His face is sharply stylized with a long straight nose and wide, open eyes.
Century
14th century
Object Creation Date
14th century
Accession Number
2000/2.153
Medium and Support
bronze
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rank 10.38494
Title
Jain Tirthankara and a monk with animal forest scene, no. 12 from a Digambara series
Artist
Artist Unknown, India, Sirohi School
Physical Description
Two distinct registers divide a page in half. At the top, a yellow-orange colored nude jina sits in lotus position upon a three tiered throne [a patterned blue level at the bottom on feet, with an orange section with gold and red decoration and a green level at the top with gold vertical stripes]. He sits against a red background adorned with a pattern of three white dots. The background takes the shape of an elegant cusped arch with a green and white pattern along its outside with a gold pattern at its sides. To the right of the seated figure a nude Digambara monk sits with his legs folded and one knee up on a less elaborate throne with a lota or pot at the corner and a crossed bookstand to the side holding a book with some devanagari writing on it. He raises his right arm and holds his left to his ear.
Placed under a band of curving yellow stripes, the bottom register represents animals in a landscape. At the bottom are clumps of grass with four stylized mountain forms in blue at the right. Above the mountains stands a tiger facing a family of antelope striding towards him. The family consists of the blue male with his long spiraling horns and a yellow doe below him with a flesh-colored in front of her. Another small yellow fawn takes up the rear. Clumps of light blue and green grasses fill in the background.
Century
18th century
Object Creation Date
18th century
Accession Number
1975/2.178
Medium and Support
ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
relevance
rank 10.38494
Title
Sutra Writings
Artist
Artist Unknown, India, Tamil Nadu
Century
19th century
Object Creation Date
circa 19th century
Accession Number
1997/1.175
Medium and Support
incised palm-leaf, darkened with charcoal dust
relevance
rank 10.38494
Title
Dvarapala (temple guardian; pair with 1980/2.291)
Artist
Artist Unknown, India, Kerala Workshop
Physical Description
The two-armed figure dances with his right leg raised and wrapped around a club. His left arm crosses his body and rests above the club and his right hand is raised almost to his ear. Tassels hang from him hips and under his armpits adding a great sense of movement to the whole figure. Multi-hooded snakes are at the base and also around the bottom of the club. He wears much of jewelry including bracelets, anklets, necklaces with should loops and an elaborate belt. His stomach protrudes over the belt. He also has large earrings and a jewel encrusted crown. His eyes bulge out and his mouth is open showing his teeth. He is a pair with 1980/2.291.
Century
15th century
Object Creation Date
15th century
Accession Number
1980/2.290
Medium and Support
wood
relevance
rank 10.38494
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 10.38494
Title
Lota (sacred bowl)
Artist
Artist Unknown, India, Tamil Nadu
Century
18th century
Object Creation Date
circa 18th century
Accession Number
1975/2.135
Medium and Support
brass
relevance
rank 10.38494
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 10.38494
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 10.38494
Title
Gita Govinda Series: Radha and Krishna in room with two sakhis in conversation (preliminary sketch)
Artist
Artist Unknown, India, Punjab Hills
Century
early 19th century
Object Creation Date
early 19th century
Accession Number
1985/2.143
Medium and Support
ink on paper
relevance
rank 10.38494
Title
Sutra Writings
Artist
Artist Unknown, India, Tamil Nadu
Century
19th century
Object Creation Date
circa 19th century
Accession Number
1997/1.177
Medium and Support
incised palm-leaf, darkened with charcoal dust
relevance
rank 10.38494
Title
Yama mounted on a buffalo (small folk bronze)
Artist
Artist Unknown, India, Kerala Workshop
Century
17th century
Object Creation Date
circa 17th century
Accession Number
1975/2.136
Medium and Support
bronze
relevance
rank 10.38494
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 10.38494
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 10.38494
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 10.38494
Title
Sutra Writings
Artist
Artist Unknown, India, Tamil Nadu
Century
19th century
Object Creation Date
circa 19th century
Accession Number
1997/1.179
Medium and Support
incised palm-leaf, darkened with charcoal dust
relevance
rank 10.38494
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