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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 22.49808
Style/Group/Movement
South Indian bronze
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 22.49808
Style/Group/Movement
South Indian bronze
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 22.49808
Style/Group/Movement
South Indian bronze
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 22.49808
Style/Group/Movement
South Indian bronze
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 22.49808
Style/Group/Movement
South Indian bronze
Title
Subrahmanya (also known as Karttikeya, Kumara, etc.)
Artist
Artist Unknown, India, South India
Physical Description
Subrahmanya stands on a tiered base which starts square and sloped, then is square and straight up and then round sloped with an incised decoration, then flanged out as a base for the figure to stand. He stands in an unbending pose and has four hands. Reading in a clockwise direction form the right front hand they are: in a reassuring gesture [abhyaya mudra], holding a vajra [a symbol of lightening], holding a symbol of a spear [actually what can be read as the head of the spear], and in a gesture of giving [varada mudra]. He wears a lung from his waist decorated with incised pattern and a lot of jewelry including belts with pendants, necklaces a decorated beaded sacred thread, large earring and an elaborate crown.
Century
19th-20th century
Object Creation Date
19th century - 20th century
Accession Number
1978/2.114
Medium and Support
bronze
relevance
rank 22.49808
Style/Group/Movement
South Indian bronze
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 22.49808
Style/Group/Movement
South Indian bronze
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