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Title: Yakshi and attendant
Artist: Artist Unknown, India, North India
Physical Description: This broken fragment depicts a now headless goddess or yakshi standing with a much smaller male attendant. She wears a necklace, bracelets and a girdle consisting of three rows of small round shapes. She stands with her left hand at her waist and the right hand next to the head of her attendant. He wears a turban and large earrings and a belt of a single line of round shapes. They both wear diaphanous lower garments that make them appear nude with both of them with their genitals exposed. The fragment is broken above the male figure’s knees and below the yakshi’s knees.
Century: 2nd century
Object Creation Date: 2nd century
Accession Number: 1980/2.285
Medium and Support: terracotta
relevance: rank 13.28722
Style/Group/Movement: miniature terracotta

Title: From Northern India, figure of seated Ganesha on perforated cylinder (armature of wheeled toy deity).
Artist: Artist Unknown, India
Century: 4th-6th century
Object Creation Date: 4th century - 6th century
Accession Number: 1980/2.280
Medium and Support: terracotta
relevance: rank 13.28722
Style/Group/Movement: miniature terracotta

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