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- Title
- Ganesha, seated, with four arms
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India
- Accession Number
- 2001/1.360
- Medium and Support
- bronze
- Primary Keywords
- ganesha
- hinduism
- Title
- Ganesha, seated, with four arms
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India
- Accession Number
- 2001/1.361
- Medium and Support
- bronze
- Primary Keywords
- ganesha
- hinduism
- 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
- Primary Keywords
- hinduism
- shiva
- sivaism
- 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
- Primary Keywords
- figures
- hinduism
- seated
- vishnu
- Title
- Lord Jaganatha with his brother Balarama and sister Subhadra
- Artist
- India, Orissa
- Physical Description
- This image has three large figures sitting in a row. The two slightly larger figures (one with a white face; left and the other with a black face; right) flank a smaller yellow faced figure. Painted in a distinct blue-background strip beneath these large figures are several smaller figures. Next to three of these figures are trays holding food.
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1969
- Accession Number
- 2002/2.192
- Medium and Support
- ink and opaque watercolor on cotton
- Primary Keywords
- deity
- hinduism
- iconography
- india (nation)
- paintings
- 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
- Primary Keywords
- hinduism
- vishnu
- Title
- Adoration of Shri Nathji
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Rajasthan, Kotah School
- Physical Description
- The richly dressed sculpture in the central niche is Shri Nathaji, an alternative name for Krishna, and the principal deity of the Vallabha Sampraday sect, to which the Kotah ruling family belonged. A priest is shown performing the lamp-waving ceremony before Shri Nathaji. At right is a small costumed sculpture of Krishna playing the flute.
- Century
- 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1830
- Accession Number
- 2003/2.9
- Medium and Support
- ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
- Primary Keywords
- deity
- hinduism
- portraits
- worshippers
- Title
- Standing Female Figure, probably a Hindu Goddess
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Cambodia (Khmer)
- Century
- 12th century
- Object Creation Date
- 12th century
- Accession Number
- 2005/1.456
- Medium and Support
- bronze
- Primary Keywords
- crown
- goddess
- hinduism
- 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
- Primary Keywords
- cows
- deity
- devotional images
- hinduism
- monkeys
- worshippers
- Title
- The Salvation of the Elephant (Gaj Mokasha)
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India
- Physical Description
- An elephant seems to walk on water from the bottom right corner of the composition, rising towards Vishnu in the upper left with a single lotus flower in its trunk. Vishnu, with 4 arms, steps on green hills surrounding the lotus covered pond, bending towards the elephant. Garuda flies in the upper right.
- Century
- 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1815
- Accession Number
- 2010/2.27
- Medium and Support
- paint on canvas
- Primary Keywords
- birds
- elephants
- flowers (plants)
- hinduism
- lotus
- paintings