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Title
Virabhadra
Artist
Artist Unknown, India, South India
Century
16th century
Object Creation Date
16th century
Accession Number
1979/2.75
Medium and Support
bronze with ruby and gold accents
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rank 3.55544
Title
Eight-armed Durga Seated on a Ram
Artist
Artist Unknown, India, South India
Century
18th century
Object Creation Date
18th century
Accession Number
1977/2.48
Medium and Support
bronze
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rank 3.55544
Title
Rama
Artist
Artist Unknown, India, South India
Century
18th century
Object Creation Date
18th century
Accession Number
1977/2.62
Medium and Support
bronze
relevance
rank 3.55544
Title
Jaina altar piece of the 24 [Caturvimsati] Jinas: with standing nude figure of Mahavira cast in the round occupying central area of base, flanked by small tirthankaras; incsribed but unread. From Mysore, Karnataka.
Artist
Artist Unknown, India, South India
Century
15th-16th century
Object Creation Date
15th century - 16th century
Accession Number
1978/2.118
Medium and Support
bronze
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rank 3.55544
Title
Folk Durga on a Lion
Artist
Artist Unknown, India, Northwest India
Century
19th century
Object Creation Date
19th century
Accession Number
1976/2.38
Medium and Support
bronze
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rank 3.55544
Title
Lord Vishnu in the Center of His Ten Incarnations
Artist
Artist Unknown, India, South India
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
20th century
Accession Number
1983/1.395
Medium and Support
batik on cotton cloth
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rank 3.55544
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 3.55544
Title
Mahishasuramardini
Artist
Artist Unknown, India, South India
Century
17th century
Object Creation Date
17th century
Accession Number
1976/2.46
Medium and Support
bronze
relevance
rank 3.55544
Title
Hanuman
Artist
Artist Unknown, India, South India
Century
17th-18th century
Object Creation Date
17th century - 18th century
Accession Number
1977/2.93
Medium and Support
bronze
relevance
rank 3.55544
Title
Tara
Artist
Artist Unknown, India, Northeastern India
Physical Description
Black schist carved in the relief of Green Tara, a guide and saviouress on the Buddhist path to enlightenment. She holds two lotuses, one open and one closed and makes the gesture of gift-giving with her palm facing outwards, towards the devotee.
Century
10th century
Object Creation Date
10th century
Accession Number
1981/2.156
Medium and Support
black schist
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rank 3.55544
Title
Virabhadra plaque
Artist
Artist Unknown, India, South India
Physical Description
Shiva as Virabhadra stand in a relaxed posture under an elaborate arch placed above a goose form on either side. The arch curves inward and forms a heart shape at the center meeting in a mask of glory, a kirtimukha. Against the pillars holding up the arch are figures of the goat-headed Daksha on his right and saintly figure on his right. Both are in posed of devotion with their hands in a prayer pose, namaskara. Virabhadra has four arms (reading clockwise from his front right hand) holding a sword, an axe, a trident and resting on a club. He wears a lower garment covered by a series of belts and a multi-tiered necklace coving much of his chest. He also wears a long garland decorated with small human heads at the bottom across his thighs. A five-headed snake hood is spread behind his crown and coils of the snake project above each of his shoulders.
Century
19th century
Object Creation Date
20th century
Accession Number
1979/2.42
Medium and Support
copper
relevance
rank 3.55544
Title
Standing Female Votive , carrying two lotuses
Artist
Artist Unknown, India, Northwest India
Century
18th-19th century
Object Creation Date
18th century - 19th century
Accession Number
1977/2.84
Medium and Support
bronze
relevance
rank 3.55544
Title
Durga
Artist
Artist Unknown, India, South India
Century
20th-century
Object Creation Date
circa 19th century - 20th century
Accession Number
1975/2.107
Medium and Support
bronze
relevance
rank 3.55544
Title
Ambika, Jaina
Artist
Artist Unknown, India, South India
Century
18th century
Object Creation Date
18th century
Accession Number
1977/2.55
Medium and Support
bronze
relevance
rank 3.55544
Title
Shiva head on separate cast base with five headed cobra canopy
Artist
Artist Unknown, India, South India
Century
18th century
Object Creation Date
18th century
Accession Number
1977/2.101
Medium and Support
bronze
relevance
rank 3.55544
Title
Virabhadra plaque
Artist
Artist Unknown, India, South India
Century
17th-18th century
Object Creation Date
17th century - 18th century
Accession Number
1978/2.68
Medium and Support
bronze
relevance
rank 3.55544
Title
Uma Mahesvara
Artist
Artist Unknown, India, Northwest India
Century
18th century
Object Creation Date
18th century
Accession Number
1977/2.65
Medium and Support
bronze
relevance
rank 3.55544
Title
Garuda
Artist
Artist Unknown, India, South India
Century
18th century
Object Creation Date
18th century
Accession Number
1981/2.53
Medium and Support
copper
relevance
rank 3.55544
Title
Folk Deity in Standing Position
Artist
Artist Unknown, India, South India
Century
17th-18th century
Object Creation Date
17th century - 18th century
Accession Number
1976/2.62
Medium and Support
bronze
relevance
rank 3.55544
Title
5 lingas on a Lion
Artist
Artist Unknown, India, South India
Century
17th-18th century
Object Creation Date
17th century - 18th century
Accession Number
1977/2.95
Medium and Support
bronze
relevance
rank 3.55544
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 3.55544
Title
Bala Krishna
Artist
Artist Unknown, India, South India
Century
17th-18th century
Object Creation Date
17th century - 18th century
Accession Number
1979/2.44
Medium and Support
bronze
relevance
rank 3.55544
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 3.55544
Title
Four-armed Seated Ganesha
Artist
Artist Unknown, India, South India
Century
18th century
Object Creation Date
circa 18th century
Accession Number
1975/2.115
Medium and Support
bronze
relevance
rank 3.55544
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 3.55544
Title
Bhairava (?), head
Artist
Artist Unknown, India, South India
Physical Description
Almost life size, this stylized face was probably placed upon a shaft and used as a religious standard at a temple. The face consists of almost a perfect circle with large ears to either side. His mouth is open showing tiny saw tooth like teeth with large canines at either end. His eyes are large and wide open with huge circular pupils and a heavy eyebrows and luxurious moustache. Horizontal lines on his forehead are signs of a follower of Shiva.
Century
18th century
Object Creation Date
18th century
Accession Number
1977/2.103
Medium and Support
brass or copper alloy
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rank 3.55544
Title
Shiva, Durga, Hanuman, Garuda, Ganesha, Nandi, animals and various Tantric symbols cast in base and body-fluted upper border at body and at cover.
Artist
Artist Unknown, India, South India
Century
18th century
Object Creation Date
18th century
Accession Number
1978/2.74
Medium and Support
bronze
relevance
rank 3.55544
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 3.55544
Title
Durga, seated, with sixteen arms
Artist
Artist Unknown, India, South India
Physical Description
Durga sits with her legs in a half lotus position, crossed in front of her, but not interlaced. She has a narrow waist and rounded pointy breasts with broad shoulders. Her front two hands hold a rosary (also in a reassuring gesture) and a pot. Her other hands fan out around her. Reading clockwise, she carries a wide assortment of weapons, an arrow, sword, feather, club, discus, trident and [?] on her right and conch, bell, noose, trident, club?, shield, bow and a kapala (skull cup). She has large open eyes and a full mouth and nose. She wears jewelry including necklaces and shoulder loops, armlets, bracelets and large floral earrings. Her crown rest atop her head, but there are wing-like elements that fan out behind her ears. She sits on a squared base with stylized lotus petals over simpler moldings.
Century
18th century
Object Creation Date
18th century
Accession Number
1981/2.59
Medium and Support
copper
relevance
rank 3.55544
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 3.55544
Title
Shiva head (Terracotta)
Artist
Artist Unknown, India, South India
Century
18th century
Object Creation Date
18th century
Accession Number
1978/2.101
Medium and Support
terracotta
relevance
rank 3.55544
Title
Vishnu votive shrine
Artist
Artist Unknown, India, South India
Century
16th – 18th century
Object Creation Date
16th century - 18th century
Accession Number
1979/2.62
Medium and Support
bronze
relevance
rank 3.55544
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 3.55544
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 3.55544
Title
Ramanuja
Artist
Artist Unknown, India, South India
Object Creation Date
n.d.
Accession Number
1977/2.128
Medium and Support
bronze
relevance
rank 3.55544
Title
Syamatara
Artist
Artist Unknown, India, Northeastern India
Century
12th century
Object Creation Date
12th century
Accession Number
1977/2.2
Medium and Support
black chlorite (stone)
relevance
rank 3.55544
Title
Bracelet (Folk Image)
Artist
Artist Unknown, India, South India
Century
16th-18th century
Object Creation Date
16th century - 18th century
Accession Number
1979/2.33
Medium and Support
bronze & copper
relevance
rank 3.55544
Title
Shiva and Parvati (small folk bronze)
Artist
Artist Unknown, India, Northwest India
Century
18th-19th century
Object Creation Date
18th century - 19th century
Accession Number
1977/2.80
Medium and Support
bronze
relevance
rank 3.55544
Title
Ladle with Various Tantric Symbols Cast into Upper Surface of Handle
Artist
Artist Unknown, India, South India
Century
17th-18th century
Object Creation Date
17th century - 18th century
Accession Number
1978/2.76
Medium and Support
bronze
relevance
rank 3.55544
Title
Virabhadra
Artist
Artist Unknown, India, South India
Century
17th-18th century
Object Creation Date
17th century - 18th century
Accession Number
1977/2.45
Medium and Support
bronze
relevance
rank 3.55544
Title
Rama
Artist
Artist Unknown, India, South India
Century
18th century
Object Creation Date
18th century
Accession Number
1977/2.61
Medium and Support
bronze
relevance
rank 3.55544
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 3.55544
Title
Shiva and Parvati
Artist
Artist Unknown, India, South India
Century
17th-18th century
Object Creation Date
17th century - 18th century
Accession Number
1977/2.64
Medium and Support
bronze
relevance
rank 3.55544
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 3.55544
Title
Durga as slayer of the Buffalo Demon (Mahsasuramardini), enthroned
Artist
Artist Unknown, India, South India
Century
16th-18th century
Object Creation Date
16th century - 17th century
Accession Number
1976/2.37
Medium and Support
bronze
relevance
rank 3.55544
Title
Vishnu triad, with Saraswati and Lakshmi (?) (miniature folk bronze)
Artist
Artist Unknown, India, South India
Century
19th century
Object Creation Date
19th century
Accession Number
1977/2.91
Medium and Support
copper
relevance
rank 3.55544
Title
Buddha, seated in bhumisparsa mudra, surrounded by five stupas (votive plaque)
Artist
Artist Unknown, India, Northeastern India
Physical Description
This clay votive plaque depicts the Buddha in the gesture of “calling the earth to witness." He is shown here surrounded by five stupas, or reliquary monuments.
Century
12th century
Object Creation Date
12th century
Accession Number
1990/1.176
Medium and Support
terracotta
relevance
rank 3.55544
Title
Narashimha and Consort (Lakshmi Narayana?)
Artist
Artist Unknown, India, South India
Century
17th–18th century
Object Creation Date
17th century - 18th century
Accession Number
1979/2.39
Medium and Support
copper
relevance
rank 3.55544
Title
Standing female votive figure
Artist
Artist Unknown, India, Northwest India
Century
18th-19th century
Object Creation Date
18th century - 19th century
Accession Number
1977/2.83
Medium and Support
bronze
relevance
rank 3.55544
Title
Hanuman
Artist
Artist Unknown, India, South India
Century
16th-18th century
Object Creation Date
16th century - 18th century
Accession Number
1975/2.103
Medium and Support
bronze
relevance
rank 3.55544
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