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- Title
- Textile fragment with paisley design
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India
- Physical Description
- A small fragment of a larger cloth, of unknown function. The base is a plain-weave cotton, now a faded red, and the woven brocade design is of densely-packed, alternating rows of 'boteh' (paisley) patterns.
- Century
- 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- 19th century
- Accession Number
- 1930.31
- Medium and Support
- plain weave cotton, madder dye and metallic thread
- Title
- Textile
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India
- Physical Description
- This square of fabric illustrates the tie-dye technique, with dots of fabric gathered into a tight bunch and dyed contrasting colors. The bunching threads are still in place.
- Century
- Late 19th-Early 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1870-1920
- Accession Number
- 1930.32
- Medium and Support
- resist dyeing textile
- Title
- Textile
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India
- Physical Description
- This small rectangle of fabric is a fragment, possibly the border edge, of a larger cloth of unknown function. The support is a plain-weave cotton dyed an intense red, overlaid with embroidery in many colors and with tiny, inset mirrors.
- Century
- 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- 19th century
- Accession Number
- 1930.33
- Medium and Support
- cotton embroidery with inset mirrors
- Title
- Textile fragment
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Kashmir
- Physical Description
- This is a rectangular fragment of a larger garment, probably a shawl, woven from very fine woolen threads with a white/natural ground and alternating rows of intricately detailed 'boteh' (paisley) patterns in red and blue.
- Century
- 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- early 19th century
- Accession Number
- 1930.42
- Medium and Support
- wool
- Title
- Shiva and his family
- Artist
- India, Punjab Hills, Kangra School
- Physical Description
- In this idyllic scene, the goddess Parvati offers her husband Shiva a drink, as they enjoy a quiet moment together. Their children, the elephant-headed Ganesha and Skanda, play inside a tent made from the hide of an elephant demon that Shiva had slain. Both parents are clothed in animal skins, the garb of mountain-dwelling ascetics, while Shiva is further adorned with a long necklace of skulls and a snake.
- Century
- 18th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1790-1800
- Accession Number
- 1942.4
- Medium and Support
- ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
- Title
- Bed Covering
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India
- Century
- late 18th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa late 18th century
- Accession Number
- 1955/1.225
- Medium and Support
- tan and gold embroidery with red and gold braid on wool
- Title
- Female Deity
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India
- Century
- 11th century
- Object Creation Date
- 11th century
- Accession Number
- 1957/1.113
- Medium and Support
- red sandstone
- 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
- Title
- Persian poetry and proverbs anthology manuscript page
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Afghanistan, Pakistan or India
- Century
- late 18th century
- Object Creation Date
- late 18th century
- Accession Number
- 1959/1.155
- Medium and Support
- ink on glazed paper
- Title
- Varahi
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Tamil Nandu, Kanchipuran
- Physical Description
- Varahi has a crowned boar’s head on a woman’s body. She sits with her ankles crosses and originally had four arms, the back two have broken away as has the front right hand which had probably been held up in a reassuring gesture. Her left from hand is held down at her left knee with the palm held facing out in a gesture of giving. Her body is softly modeled with a narrow waist and full breasts. She wears jewelry that is in sharp but low relief and includes a series of necklaces forming a collar of decoration and a longer one that falls between her breasts which suggests the sacred thread extending down to her waist at her right. She is naked from the waist up and the lower garment is merely suggested by the heavier folds at the waist. Her head is tilted and her chin/snout had jutted out to the left, but the lower snout is broken away. She wears a conical crown that accents the long diagonal of her face. Originally there was an arch behind the image which would have supported her back arms, so the image would have appeared denser, with only the cut away empty space to the sides of her waist.
- Century
- 10th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa early 10th century
- Accession Number
- 1960/1.113
- Medium and Support
- granite
- Title
- Lotus Relief, Fragment from the crosspiece of a stupa railing in Mathura
- Artist
- India, Uttar Pradesh, Mathura
- Physical Description
- The red mottled sandstone of this lotus relief is unique to the Sikri quarry, just outside of Mathura.
- Century
- 3rd century
- Object Creation Date
- 3rd century
- Accession Number
- 1963/1.90
- Medium and Support
- red sandstone
- Title
- Ragamala series: Varadi ragini
- Artist
- India, Rajasthan, Amber School
- Century
- late 17th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1680-1700
- Accession Number
- 1964/2.110
- Medium and Support
- ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
- Title
- Râmâyana manuscript page: Rama kills the deer (folio no. 31)
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Central India, Malwa School
- Physical Description
- The artist has captured the story of the deer hunt with the fewest possible elements, in a way that is instantly recognizable and yet takes liberties with the classical tale. The forest is represented by two trees and a few sprays of foliage; the deer is a mundane gray, not magical gold; and Sita waits anxiously in a white marble pavilion, rather than a thatched hut. The vibrantly colored backgrounds divide the composition into zones that create mood and organize the narrative.
- Century
- 17th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1635-1650
- Accession Number
- 1964/2.111
- Medium and Support
- ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
- Title
- Nayika bathing
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India
- Century
- early 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- early 19th century
- Accession Number
- 1964/2.112
- Medium and Support
- ink, opaque watercolor, gold, and silver on paper
- Title
- Travelling entertainer
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Rajasthan
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 20th century
- Accession Number
- 1964/2.113
- Medium and Support
- ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
- 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
- Title
- Nayika
- Artist
- India, Rajasthan, Udaipur School
- Century
- 18th century
- Object Creation Date
- 18th century
- Accession Number
- 1964/2.115
- Medium and Support
- ink, opaque watercolor, silver, and gold on paper
- Title
- A family of Bhil hunters
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Delhi, Mughal or Deccani
- Century
- 18th century
- Object Creation Date
- 18th century
- Accession Number
- 1964/2.117
- Medium and Support
- ink, watercolor wash, and gold on paper
- Title
- Woman with Hindu mendicant (Ragamala scene??)
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Central India, Malwa School
- Century
- 18th century
- Object Creation Date
- 18th century
- Accession Number
- 1964/2.118
- Medium and Support
- ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
- Title
- Portrait of Maharaja Balbir Sen of Mandi
- Artist
- Artist Unknown India, Mandi, Himechal Predesh
- Physical Description
- Balbir Sen of Mandi sits with his legs tucked under him against a purplish bolster on an oval orange carpet with a green border. He wears a white garment with green borders and some jewelry: a ring, bracelets, an armlet, necklaces, earrings and wears a green turban with a turban jewel across the front, surmounted by a black feathered aigrette. A sword signifying his rank lies across his body. He sits in strict profile with a heavy black beard and mustache. The paper is plain and uncolored except around the figure, which is painted against a white wash taking the shape of the seated man and his setting.
- Inscriptions in devanagari script are above the painting.
- Century
- 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1825
- Accession Number
- 1964/2.119
- Medium and Support
- opaque watercolor and gold on paper
- Title
- Krishna Fluting
- Artist
- India, Rajasthan, Mewar School
- Century
- late 16th - early 17th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1700
- Accession Number
- 1964/2.120
- Medium and Support
- ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
- Title
- Uma-Maheshvara, a seated Shiva and Parvati (Uma)
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Bengal
- Physical Description
- Shiva sits with his consort on a double lotus pedestal. He has six arms, his right three are in varada mudra [a giving gesture], holds a rosary and an arrow. His left arms cup his consorts left breast and hold a lotus flower and a bow. He sits in royal ease, with one leg pendant. He wears bracelets, armlets, necklaces, earrings, and a sacred thread that stretches form his left shoulder down past his waist. On his head he wears an elaborate jatamukuta, a crown interlaced with his matted locks. Parvati sits upon his knee with one leg tucked under her and the other pendant. She is also adorned with jewelry, but wears a more modest diadem at the front of her head.
- Century
- 12th century
- Object Creation Date
- 12th century
- Accession Number
- 1964/2.85
- Medium and Support
- bronze
- Title
- Uma, seated in lalitasana pose
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India
- Century
- 16th century
- Object Creation Date
- 16th century
- Accession Number
- 1964/2.90
- Medium and Support
- bronze
- Title
- Yakshi bearing flowers (railing pillar from a stupa)
- Artist
- India, Madhya Pradesh, Mathura
- Century
- 3rd century
- Object Creation Date
- late 2nd century - early 3rd century
- Accession Number
- 1968/2.73
- Medium and Support
- mottled red sandstone
- Title
- A wandering Shaivite ascetic with his dog
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Delhi-Agra, Mughal
- Physical Description
- This work is a double-sided page from a bound album. The painting, depicting a Hindu ascetic walking with his dog in a pastoral landscape, has been placed in a border, decorated with a floral scroll painted in gold on a blue or pale orange ground; a similar border surrounds a calligraphy panel on the reverse side. The border and the calligraphy panel are both somewhat later in date than the painting itself.
- The painting of the ascetic and his dog is pasted onto an album page. It is surrounded by a series of gold floral borders alternating blue and saffron-colored backgrounds. Wearing a brown poncho-like garment and carrying a fan in his right hand and a bag of his belongings, the lead attached to his white dog, and some tools in his left, he strides through the landscape. He wears sandals and has long brown matted locks of hair and a graying beard. The landscape consists of intersecting rounded forms in shades of green and yellow, surmounted by trees along the top and with a larger blue-foliaged tree to the right near the horizon. At the bottom a diagonal of yellowish rise of land with clumps of grass suggests some depth and a foreground, but the figure is quite flat in the middle ground.
- On the back of the page is a Panel of calligraphy consisting of a quatrain in Shah Jahan's handwriting signed "Sultân Khurram [his given name before he took the name Shah Jahan upon becoming emperor" and dated 1020/1611-12. This is also surrounded by elaborate borders.
- Century
- 16th-17th century
- Object Creation Date
- late 16th century - early 17th century
- Accession Number
- 1969/2.175
- Medium and Support
- opaque watercolor and gold on paper
- 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
- Title
- Kalpasutra manuscript page: Monks and Devotees
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Gujarat
- Physical Description
- The horizontal folio from a Kalpasutra manuscript consists of seven lines of text to the left and center broken by a squarish gold symbol framed in a red line and cusped blue lines. Gold diamond shapes framed in red are at the sides, with a vertical red line between the one on the left and the text. Between the text and the right diamond shape there is a painting consisting of three registers of figures against a red ground. The top row depicts three laymen wearing crowns, the middle two monks and a nun and the bottom row three nuns.
- Century
- 15th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1400-1450
- Accession Number
- 1970/2.116
- Medium and Support
- ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
- Title
- Vishnu with two attendants
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Kashmir
- Physical Description
- Vishnu stands with a slight sway to his body with his right hip thrust out, the tribhangha of “thrice bent pose.” He has four hands to carry his attributes, his front two hold a lotus bud and a conch. The back two hang down and rather than carry his two weapons are placed on personified figures of them. At is right is the personified club and on his left his discus. He wears a diaphanous lower cloth that is so sheer, it appears almost invisible, only the folds of the garment are articulated. He wears a long garland down almost to his feet and a sacred thread to his waist. He also wears various pieces of jewelry, including armlets, large earrings and an elaborate crown. The whole is quite worn due to the way the image has been handled by devotees, who have touched it and applied various substances to it. His eyes had been inlayed with silver to add a certain realism to the piece.
- Century
- 9th century
- Object Creation Date
- 9th century
- Accession Number
- 1970/2.146
- Medium and Support
- bronze with silver inlay
- Title
- Shiva and Parvati
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Northeastern India
- Century
- 9th-10th century
- Object Creation Date
- 9th century - 10th century
- Accession Number
- 1970/2.147
- Medium and Support
- bronze
- Title
- Mahâbhârata series: Women greet a horseman
- Artist
- India, Maharashtra, Paithan School
- Century
- 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- early 19th century - mid 19th century
- Accession Number
- 1970/2.166
- Medium and Support
- ink and opaque watercolor on paper
- Title
- Portrait of a lady under a willow
- Artist
- India, Andhra Pradesh, Golconda School
- Physical Description
- The lady stands against a bright green background with only a hint of physical setting. There are some ground lines at her feet with springs of red flowers and a simple stylized willow tree that curves around the figure. She stands with her body turning towards her right with her head in profile. She lifts a flower up in her right hand and hangs her left arms down past her waste. She wears tight lavender colored trousers with a diaphanous skirt covering them with a gold and colored brocaded scarf hanging down the center. Her breasts appear bare, but actually the blouse is also sheer, with a darker color at the shoulders and below her breasts. She wears gold brocade slippers and wide bracelets with black pompoms and rings, necklaces, earrings and a scarf hangs from her shoulders. A gold turban with a black aigrette crowns her. The portrait is framed with some gold and black lines and placed on a simple, buff colored border. An inscription in nastaliq‘ script is above the painting.
- Century
- 18th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1760
- Accession Number
- 1970/2.80
- Medium and Support
- opaque watercolor and gold on paper
- Title
- Devotees of the Buddha (fragment of a frieze from a stupa, from Nagarjunakonda?)
- Artist
- India, Andhra Pradesh
- Century
- 2nd-3rd century
- Object Creation Date
- 2nd century - 3rd century
- Accession Number
- 1972/2.42
- Medium and Support
- limestone
- 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
- Title
- Hanuman/Garuda (dual image) (small folk bronze)
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Maharashtra
- Century
- 18th-19th century
- Object Creation Date
- 18th century - 19th century
- Accession Number
- 1975/2.104
- Medium and Support
- bronze
- Title
- Hanuman
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India
- Century
- 18th century
- Object Creation Date
- 18th century
- Accession Number
- 1975/2.105
- Medium and Support
- bronze
- 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
- 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
- Title
- Laksmi-Narayana on Garuda
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, North or Central India
- Century
- 17th-18th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 17th century - 18th century
- Accession Number
- 1975/2.108
- Medium and Support
- bronze
- Title
- Durga as slayer of the Buffalo Demon (Mahisasuramardini)
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, South India
- Century
- 17th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 17th century
- Accession Number
- 1975/2.109
- Medium and Support
- bronze
- Title
- Folk Durga
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Tamil Nadu
- Century
- 18th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 18th century
- Accession Number
- 1975/2.110
- Medium and Support
- bronze
- Title
- Durga on a Lion
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India
- Object Creation Date
- n.d.
- Accession Number
- 1975/2.111
- Medium and Support
- brass
- Title
- Durga
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, North India
- Century
- 17th century
- Object Creation Date
- 17th century
- Accession Number
- 1975/2.112
- Medium and Support
- brass
- Title
- Padmavati (small folk bronze)
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Gujarat
- Century
- 17th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 17th century
- Accession Number
- 1975/2.113
- Medium and Support
- bronze
- Title
- Ambika
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Gujarat
- Physical Description
- Ambika sits above her stylized lion mount with a long body and with its tail curled to add support to the seated figure above. She sits with one leg pendant. She has four arms, the back two hold stylized mango clusters and her front right hand holds a large mango. Her left-hand cups a child seated on her left knee. Another child stands on the base to her right. The backing takes on a throne-like form, but she appears to float in front of it, the square-ish base is pierced and the arch of the back is surmounted by an auspicious pot form with leaves creating a volute shape to either side. The sculpture is solid brass, but the eyes and an ornament in her headdress are inlayed with silver.
- Century
- 17th century
- Object Creation Date
- 17th century
- Accession Number
- 1975/2.114
- Medium and Support
- brass with silver inlay
- 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
- Title
- Ganesha with four arms, in a seated posture
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, South India
- Century
- 18th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 18th century
- Accession Number
- 1975/2.116
- Medium and Support
- bronze
- 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
- Title
- Ganesha with Four Arms on Lotus Pedestal
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India
- Century
- 20th-century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 19th century - 20th century
- Accession Number
- 1975/2.118
- Medium and Support
- brass
- Title
- Four-armed Ganesha on a Pedestal
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India
- Century
- 20th-century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 19th century - 20th century
- Accession Number
- 1975/2.119
- Medium and Support
- brass
- Title
- Caturvimsati Pata (Shrine of the 24 Jinas)
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Gujarat
- Physical Description
- This shrine depicts a large seated Jina surrounded by 23 other jina figures and a variety of attendants. The Jina figures that adorn the sides and are arranged in tiers above the main figure. The side columns and the whole is surmounted by auspicious pot forms. The main figure sits in the lotus position on a lion throne flanked by a male and female demigod. Along the sides he is flanked by standing cauri bearers, garland bearers above them and riders on elephants above that with an umbrella with a standing figure on it above his head. At the base in the center is a standing figure holding a sick or club with a bull cognizance behind him on the base of the throne. The nine globs on the base, four to his right and five to his left represent the nine planets and his hands folded in a gesture of meditation
- Century
- 15th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1464
- Accession Number
- 1975/2.120
- Medium and Support
- bronze or brass