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- Title
- The Sixth Night Vigil from a Kalpasutra manuscript (fol. no. 38v), depicting two pairs of queens
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Gujarat
- Physical Description
- A scene in the life of Mahavira. The composition is designated a narrow strip near the left, while the rest of the page is used for text and red circles. The illustration is divided into two registers, with depictions of two women in each. The infant Mahavira is seen in his mother’s arms, at the upper left.
- Century
- 15th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1478
- Accession Number
- 1981/2.162
- Medium and Support
- Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
- relevance
- rank 4.79626
- Creation Place 2
- India (nation)
- Title
- Vishnu (small folk bronze)
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India
- Object Creation Date
- n.d.
- Accession Number
- 1977/2.120
- Medium and Support
- bronze
- relevance
- rank 4.79626
- Creation Place 2
- India (nation)
- Title
- Lakshmi-Narayana
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, South India
- Century
- 18th century
- Object Creation Date
- 18th century
- Accession Number
- 1977/2.57
- Medium and Support
- bronze
- relevance
- rank 4.79626
- Creation Place 2
- India (nation)
- 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 4.79626
- Creation Place 2
- India (nation)
- Title
- Durga?
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India
- Object Creation Date
- n.d.
- Accession Number
- 1977/2.137
- Medium and Support
- bronze
- relevance
- rank 4.79626
- Creation Place 2
- India (nation)
- Title
- Krishna as a child (one of 4 figures)
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, South India
- Century
- 17th-18th century
- Object Creation Date
- 17th century - 18th century
- Accession Number
- 1977/2.96
- Medium and Support
- bronze
- relevance
- rank 4.79626
- Creation Place 2
- India (nation)
- Title
- Mahish-Asura-Mardini with four arms killing buffalo demon
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Maharashtra
- Century
- 17th-18th century
- Object Creation Date
- 17th century - 18th century
- Accession Number
- 1976/2.49
- Medium and Support
- bronze
- relevance
- rank 4.79626
- Creation Place 2
- India (nation)
- Title
- Venugopala
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India
- Object Creation Date
- n.d.
- Accession Number
- 1978/2.115
- Medium and Support
- bronze
- relevance
- rank 4.79626
- Creation Place 2
- India (nation)
- Title
- Durga
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Tamil Nadu
- Century
- 20th-century
- Object Creation Date
- 19th century - 20th century
- Accession Number
- 1975/2.106
- Medium and Support
- bronze
- relevance
- rank 4.79626
- Creation Place 2
- India (nation)
- Title
- Mother Goddess
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, North India
- Physical Description
- This black terracotta is broken at the waste and depicts a simple body decorated with globs of clay decorated with punch-marked decorations. The face is modeled a bit more realistically with wide-open eyes and a full mouth. The front of her hair is in a series of rounded ball-like curls and a circular starburst decoration is at the top. The other oval globs frame the face of the goddess and cascade down what is left of her body.
- Century
- 1st century BCE-1st century CE
- Object Creation Date
- 1st century BCE - 1st century CE
- Accession Number
- 1981/2.148
- Medium and Support
- terracotta
- relevance
- rank 4.79626
- Creation Place 2
- India (nation)
- Title
- Vishnu
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India
- Object Creation Date
- n.d.
- Accession Number
- 1979/2.29
- Medium and Support
- bronze
- relevance
- rank 4.79626
- Creation Place 2
- India (nation)
- 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
- relevance
- rank 4.79626
- Creation Place 2
- India (nation)
- Title
- Male and female figures
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, North or Central India
- Century
- 18th-19th century
- Object Creation Date
- 18th century - 19th century
- Accession Number
- 1977/2.81
- Medium and Support
- bronze
- relevance
- rank 4.79626
- Creation Place 2
- India (nation)
- Title
- Smoke and Fog (Udaipur, India)
- Artist
- Caleb Cain Marcus
- Artist Life Dates
- (active 1978 - )
- Century
- 21st century
- Object Creation Date
- 2005
- Accession Number
- 2007/2.62
- Medium and Support
- digital chromogenic print on paper
- relevance
- rank 4.79626
- Creation Place 2
- India (nation)
- Title
- Garuda
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, North or Central India
- Object Creation Date
- 13th century-18th century
- Accession Number
- 1979/2.32
- Medium and Support
- bronze
- relevance
- rank 4.79626
- Creation Place 2
- India (nation)
- Title
- Picchvai
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India
- Physical Description
- Painting on cloth in an array of colors that depicts a religious scene. There are assorted animals such as monkeys and cows with red hand prints on them.
- There is a river at the fore of the painting with flowers and lily pads in it. The painting has a colorful floral border.
- Century
- 18th-19th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1700-1850
- Accession Number
- 2008/2.288
- Medium and Support
- ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on cloth
- relevance
- rank 4.79626
- Creation Place 2
- India (nation)
- Title
- Shiva, seated (small folk bronze)
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Northwest India
- Century
- 18th-19th century
- Object Creation Date
- 18th century - 19th century
- Accession Number
- 1977/2.77
- Medium and Support
- bronze
- relevance
- rank 4.79626
- Creation Place 2
- India (nation)
- 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
- relevance
- rank 4.79626
- Creation Place 2
- India (nation)
- Title
- A celebration of the rains
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Rajasthan, Kotah School
- Physical Description
- Fresh greens for the foliage and dark blue clouds sprinkled with lightning set the rain celebration scene. Court ladies have gathered on the lawn, and some swing under a blossoming tree, while the raja and a woman watch the exciement below from a balcony of his white palace.
- Century
- 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- early 19th century
- Accession Number
- 1964/2.114
- Medium and Support
- Ink, opaque watercolor, silver, and gold on paper
- relevance
- rank 4.79626
- Creation Place 2
- India (nation)
- Title
- Jina and devotees from a Digambara Jain manuscript
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India
- Physical Description
- Nude Jina sitting on altar-like structure in center of image. The "altar" is sitting on a lotus flower. There are devotees on all four sides of Jina, a total of five persons. The devotee at the left is also nude. There are red and yellow flags, and various flowers scattered all over the image. There is a red and green border. The colors present are vivid reds, greens, yellows and deep blues.
- Century
- 18th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 18th century
- Accession Number
- 1975/2.175
- Medium and Support
- ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
- relevance
- rank 4.79626
- Creation Place 2
- India (nation)
- 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 4.79626
- Creation Place 2
- India (nation)
- Title
- Folk archer
- Artist
- India, Central India
- Century
- 17th-18th century
- Object Creation Date
- 17th century - 18th century
- Accession Number
- 1976/2.72
- Medium and Support
- bronze
- relevance
- rank 4.79626
- Creation Place 2
- India (nation)
- Title
- Miniature figure
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India
- Object Creation Date
- n.d.
- Accession Number
- 1977/2.142E
- Medium and Support
- bronze
- relevance
- rank 4.79626
- Creation Place 2
- India (nation)
- Title
- Unidentified Hindu (?) deity (small folk bronze)
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India
- Object Creation Date
- n.d.
- Accession Number
- 1977/2.113
- Medium and Support
- bronze
- relevance
- rank 4.79626
- Creation Place 2
- India (nation)
- Title
- Virabhadra plaque
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, South India
- Century
- 17th–18th century
- Object Creation Date
- 17th century - 18th century
- Accession Number
- 1977/2.43
- Medium and Support
- brass (?)
- relevance
- rank 4.79626
- Creation Place 2
- India (nation)
- 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
- relevance
- rank 4.79626
- Creation Place 2
- India (nation)
- Title
- Vishnu, seated
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India
- Object Creation Date
- n.d.
- Accession Number
- 1977/2.130
- Medium and Support
- bronze
- relevance
- rank 4.79626
- Creation Place 2
- India (nation)
- Title
- Shiva in ekamukhalinga form, with cobra hood, on a dais
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, South India
- Century
- 18th century
- Object Creation Date
- 18th century
- Accession Number
- 1977/2.104
- Medium and Support
- bronze
- relevance
- rank 4.79626
- Creation Place 2
- India (nation)
- Title
- Durga slaying the Buffalo Demon (Mahishasuramardini)
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Kulu, Himachal Pradesh
- Century
- 17th century
- Object Creation Date
- 17th century
- Accession Number
- 1976/2.74
- Medium and Support
- bronze
- relevance
- rank 4.79626
- Creation Place 2
- India (nation)
- Title
- Unidentified Hindu or folk goddess, with three children (?) (small folk bronze)
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India
- Century
- 18th-19th century
- Object Creation Date
- 18th century - 19th century
- Accession Number
- 1978/2.104
- Medium and Support
- bronze
- relevance
- rank 4.79626
- Creation Place 2
- India (nation)
- Title
- Virabhadra
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, South India
- Century
- 17th-18th century
- Object Creation Date
- 17th century - 18th century
- Accession Number
- 1978/2.75
- Medium and Support
- bronze
- relevance
- rank 4.79626
- Creation Place 2
- India (nation)
- 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
- relevance
- rank 4.79626
- Creation Place 2
- India (nation)
- Title
- Yogini with skull cup and serpant necklace
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India
- Object Creation Date
- n.d.
- Accession Number
- 1978/2.93
- Medium and Support
- bronze
- relevance
- rank 4.79626
- Creation Place 2
- India (nation)
- 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 4.79626
- Creation Place 2
- India (nation)
- Title
- Vishnu with Two Attendants
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, North or Central India
- Century
- 20th-century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 19th century - 20th century
- Accession Number
- 1975/2.129
- Medium and Support
- bronze
- relevance
- rank 4.79626
- Creation Place 2
- India (nation)
- Title
- Equestrian figure
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India
- Object Creation Date
- n.d.
- Accession Number
- 1979/2.67
- Medium and Support
- bronze
- relevance
- rank 4.79626
- Creation Place 2
- India (nation)
- 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 4.79626
- Creation Place 2
- India (nation)
- Title
- Bull
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, North or Central India
- Century
- 18th-19th century
- Object Creation Date
- 18th century - 19th century
- Accession Number
- 1978/2.71
- Medium and Support
- bronze
- relevance
- rank 4.79626
- Creation Place 2
- India (nation)
- Title
- Vishnu, seated (worn from centuries of handling)
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Northeastern India
- Century
- 19th-20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 19th century - 20th century
- Accession Number
- 1975/2.131
- Medium and Support
- copper
- relevance
- rank 4.79626
- Creation Place 2
- India (nation)
- Title
- Portrait of Sarup Singh of Merti
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Rajasthan
- Century
- Late 18th-Early 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1800
- Accession Number
- 1957/1.124
- Medium and Support
- ink and opaque watercolor on paper
- relevance
- rank 4.79626
- Creation Place 2
- India (nation)
- Title
- Shiva Shrine (one of three)
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Rajasthan
- Century
- 16th-18th century
- Object Creation Date
- 16th century - 18th century
- Accession Number
- 1979/2.47
- Medium and Support
- bronze
- relevance
- rank 4.79626
- Creation Place 2
- India (nation)
- 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 4.79626
- Creation Place 2
- India (nation)
- Title
- Figure of a Goddess holding a sword in her left hand and a jewel in her right hand
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Bengal
- Century
- 17th-18th century
- Object Creation Date
- 17th century - 18th century
- Accession Number
- 1976/2.57
- Medium and Support
- bronze
- relevance
- rank 4.79626
- Creation Place 2
- India (nation)
- Title
- Durga on a Lion
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India
- Object Creation Date
- n.d.
- Accession Number
- 1975/2.111
- Medium and Support
- brass
- relevance
- rank 4.79626
- Creation Place 2
- India (nation)
- 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 4.79626
- Creation Place 2
- India (nation)
- Title
- Descent of the River Ganges
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Central India, Bundelkhand
- Physical Description
- In this intensely lyrical painting from Bundelkhand in Central India, the great river is shown tumbling from the night sky. Ascetics sit cross-legged on the mountainside, offering their austerities to Shiva, while women come to venerate Ganga. The river teems with life—crocodiles, turtles, fish, and birds—while lions, leopards, jackals, monkeys, and rabbits cavort on its banks.
- Century
- 18th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1775
- Accession Number
- 1979/1.148
- Medium and Support
- ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
- relevance
- rank 4.79626
- Creation Place 2
- India (nation)
- Title
- Seated Ganesha with 16 Arms and Consort Seated on Left Lap (small folk bronze)
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, South India
- Century
- 18th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 18th century
- Accession Number
- 1975/2.117
- Medium and Support
- copper
- relevance
- rank 4.79626
- Creation Place 2
- India (nation)
- Title
- The birth of the Kauravas from a Mahabharata series
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Gujarat
- Physical Description
- A scene takes place in a red box, lined with black and red diamond and triangle designs for borders. In the center, a woman sites with a child in her lap. She wears a spotted dress, her hair up, and a nose ring and bindi. The child reaches one hand and places it atop her head, and the other down towards her own upward hands. Surrounding them are seven other figures. One kneels before them, offering his hands up, and another fans the woman from behind. The remaining five figures seem to play together in front of the throne on which the woman and child sit.
- Century
- 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- 19th century
- Accession Number
- 1969/2.19
- Medium and Support
- ink and opaque watercolor on paper
- relevance
- rank 4.79626
- Creation Place 2
- India (nation)
- Title
- Vishnu (small folk bronze)
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India
- Object Creation Date
- n.d.
- Accession Number
- 1977/2.122
- Medium and Support
- bronze
- relevance
- rank 4.79626
- Creation Place 2
- India (nation)
- Title
- Uma Maheshvara
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, South India
- Century
- 18th century
- Object Creation Date
- 18th century
- Accession Number
- 1977/2.59
- Medium and Support
- copper
- relevance
- rank 4.79626
- Creation Place 2
- India (nation)