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Vajri; Artist Unknown, India, Rajasthan

Title: Vajri
Artist: Artist Unknown, India, Rajasthan
Century: 18th-19th century
Object Creation Date: 18th century - 19th century
Accession Number: 1981/2.54
Medium and Support: bronze
Artist: India, Rajasthan, Artist Unknown

Four-armed Vishnu; Artist Unknown, India, Rajasthan

Title: Four-armed Vishnu
Artist: Artist Unknown, India, Rajasthan
Physical Description: Vishnu stands with his legs apart holding his four attributes in his hands. Reading in clockwise direction from his right front hand he holds: his club, discus, conch and lotus, here a rather flat object cupped in his palm. His back two arms are extremely short. The figure is encircled with a decorated arch with a line of beads and triangular shaped openings around them. A stylized sun and moon are to either side of Vishnu’s head. He wears a variety of simple, lumpy jewelry at his feet are a horse to his right and a bull or cow to his left and between them are three rings lying flat on the base. At the front of the base are seven stylized horses, identifying this as a combination figure: Vishnu and the sun god Surya, whose chariot is pulled by seven horses.
Century: 18th-19th century
Object Creation Date: 18th century - 19th century
Accession Number: 1977/2.49
Medium and Support: bronze
Artist: India, Rajasthan, Artist Unknown

Multi-armed Kali on a corpse (small folk bronze); Artist Unknown, India, Rajasthan

Title: Multi-armed Kali on a corpse (small folk bronze)
Artist: Artist Unknown, India, Rajasthan
Century: 19th century
Object Creation Date: 19th century
Accession Number: 1978/2.125
Medium and Support: bronze
Artist: India, Rajasthan, Artist Unknown

Plate Inscribed with Flying Figure of Hanuman Holding a Flag, Mace and Spear; Artist Unknown, India, Rajasthan

Title: Plate Inscribed with Flying Figure of Hanuman Holding a Flag, Mace and Spear
Artist: Artist Unknown, India, Rajasthan
Physical Description: Hanuman is depicted with a human body and a monkey head. The image is incised on the plate and his body is entirely textured with characters in the devanagari script. Often merely the letter ‘r’ designating the god Rama with whom he is associated. He is in a striding posture and there are a number of sections of text scattered around the image. At his feet is a human figure walking in the opposite direction. He holds a double flag consisting of two triangular shapes facing him in his left hand along with a thin club. One appears to emanating from his mouth? His right hand is lifted with an arrow above it and his tail curves behind him. There is also a small altar depicting the two feet of Rama in the area between his outstretched leg and the end of a scarf wrapped around his body.
Century: 18th-19th century
Object Creation Date: 18th century - 19th century
Accession Number: 1978/2.89
Medium and Support: copper
Artist: India, Rajasthan, Artist Unknown

Lakshmi lustrated by elephants (Gaja Lakshmi (Goddess)); India, Rajasthan, Bundi School

Title: Lakshmi lustrated by elephants (Gaja Lakshmi (Goddess))
Artist: India, Rajasthan, Bundi School
Physical Description: The white elephants, which draw the eye into the image, face toward the center leading the viewer to Lakshmi who is the central figure in the frame. The image is bordered by a red colored frame. And below the figures, in the background is a dark banded representing a pond.
Century: 19th century
Object Creation Date: 19th century
Accession Number: 2001/2.133
Medium and Support: ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
Artist: India, Rajasthan, Bundi School

A celebration of the rains; Artist Unknown, India, Rajasthan, Kotah School

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
Artist: India, Rajasthan, Kotah School, Artist Unknown

Two men on a camel; Artist Unknown, India, Rajasthan, Marwar, Jodhpur

Title: Two men on a camel
Artist: Artist Unknown, India, Rajasthan, Marwar, Jodhpur
Physical Description: Three main figures (two men and the camel they are riding) are brought to the foreground because of the contrast between their light colors against the stark green hill. The hill dominates the background leaving only a little bit of blue sky visible in the top corners. Underneath the main figures a secondary white dog and rabbit are also prominent.
Century: 19th century
Object Creation Date: mid 19th century
Accession Number: 1980/2.246
Medium and Support: ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
Artist: India, Rajasthan, Marwar, Jodhpur, Artist Unknown

Mukha-Linga; Artist Unknown, India, South India

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
Artist: India, South India, Artist Unknown

Mukha-Linga; Artist Unknown, India, South India

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
Artist: India, South India, Artist Unknown

Mukha-Linga, Cobra head; Artist Unknown, India, South India

Title: Mukha-Linga, Cobra head
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: 1981/2.52C
Medium and Support: bronze
Artist: India, South India, Artist Unknown

Bhairava; Artist Unknown, India, South India

Title: Bhairava
Artist: Artist Unknown, India, South India
Century: 16th – 19th century
Object Creation Date: 16th century - 19th century
Accession Number: 1981/2.55
Medium and Support: copper
Artist: India, South India, Artist Unknown

Durga; Artist Unknown, India, South India

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
Artist: India, South India, Artist Unknown

Lakshmi-Narayana; Artist Unknown, India, South India

Title: Lakshmi-Narayana
Artist: Artist Unknown, India, South India
Century: 19th century
Object Creation Date: 19th century
Accession Number: 1977/2.56
Medium and Support: copper
Artist: India, South India, Artist Unknown

Ganesha, seated; Artist Unknown, India, South India

Title: Ganesha, seated
Artist: Artist Unknown, India, South India
Century: 18th-19th century
Object Creation Date: 18th century - 19th century
Accession Number: 1977/2.88
Medium and Support: bronze
Artist: India, South India, Artist Unknown

Vishnu triad, with Saraswati and Lakshmi (?) (miniature folk bronze); Artist Unknown, India, South India

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
Artist: India, South India, Artist Unknown

Subrahmanya (also known as Karttikeya, Kumara, etc.); Artist Unknown, India, South India

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
Artist: India, South India, Artist Unknown

Durga; Artist Unknown, India, Tamil Nadu

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
Artist: India, Tamil Nadu, Artist Unknown

Sutra Writings; Artist Unknown, India, Tamil Nadu

Title: Sutra Writings
Artist: Artist Unknown, India, Tamil Nadu
Century: 19th century
Object Creation Date: circa 19th century
Accession Number: 1997/1.175
Medium and Support: incised palm-leaf, darkened with charcoal dust
Artist: India, Tamil Nadu, Artist Unknown

Sutra Writings; Artist Unknown, India, Tamil Nadu

Title: Sutra Writings
Artist: Artist Unknown, India, Tamil Nadu
Century: 19th century
Object Creation Date: circa 19th century
Accession Number: 1997/1.176
Medium and Support: incised palm-leaf, darkened with charcoal dust
Artist: India, Tamil Nadu, Artist Unknown

Sutra Writings; Artist Unknown, India, Tamil Nadu

Title: Sutra Writings
Artist: Artist Unknown, India, Tamil Nadu
Century: 19th century
Object Creation Date: circa 19th century
Accession Number: 1997/1.177
Medium and Support: incised palm-leaf, darkened with charcoal dust
Artist: India, Tamil Nadu, Artist Unknown

Sutra Writings; Artist Unknown, India, Tamil Nadu

Title: Sutra Writings
Artist: Artist Unknown, India, Tamil Nadu
Century: 19th century
Object Creation Date: circa 19th century
Accession Number: 1997/1.178
Medium and Support: incised palm-leaf, darkened with charcoal dust
Artist: India, Tamil Nadu, Artist Unknown

Sutra Writings; Artist Unknown, India, Tamil Nadu

Title: Sutra Writings
Artist: Artist Unknown, India, Tamil Nadu
Century: 19th century
Object Creation Date: circa 19th century
Accession Number: 1997/1.179
Medium and Support: incised palm-leaf, darkened with charcoal dust
Artist: India, Tamil Nadu, Artist Unknown

Sutra Writings; Artist Unknown, India, Tamil Nadu

Title: Sutra Writings
Artist: Artist Unknown, India, Tamil Nadu
Century: 19th century
Object Creation Date: circa 19th century
Accession Number: 1997/1.180
Medium and Support: incised palm-leaf, darkened with charcoal dust
Artist: India, Tamil Nadu, Artist Unknown

Sutra Writings; Artist Unknown, India, Tamil Nadu

Title: Sutra Writings
Artist: Artist Unknown, India, Tamil Nadu
Century: 19th century
Object Creation Date: circa 19th century
Accession Number: 1997/1.181
Medium and Support: incised palm-leaf, darkened with charcoal dust
Artist: India, Tamil Nadu, Artist Unknown

Kris handle; Indonesia

Title: Kris handle
Artist: Indonesia
Century: 19th century
Object Creation Date: 19th century
Accession Number: 1981/2.78
Medium and Support: wood
Artist: Indonesia

Dagger; Indonesia

Title: Dagger
Artist: Indonesia
Century: 19th century
Object Creation Date: 19th century
Accession Number: 1979/2.87
Medium and Support: steel with bone handle
Artist: Indonesia

'Sung Sang Kala' (Sunday in "Pelelintangan" —Balinese calendar); Indonesia, Bali

Title: 'Sung Sang Kala' (Sunday in "Pelelintangan" —Balinese calendar)
Artist: Indonesia, Bali
Century: Late 19th century
Object Creation Date: late 19th century
Accession Number: 1966/2.15
Medium and Support: ink and opaque watercolor on hand-woven cotton
Artist: Indonesia, Bali

Netsuke of mouse and chestnut on leaves; Ippo

Title: Netsuke of mouse and chestnut on leaves
Artist: Ippo
Artist Life Dates: 1665-1737
Century: 19th century
Object Creation Date: 19th century
Accession Number: 1997/2.20
Medium and Support: wood
Artist: Ippo

Shallow plate with floral rim design on broad rim; Artist Unknown, Iran

Title: Shallow plate with floral rim design on broad rim
Artist: Artist Unknown, Iran
Century: 18th-19th century
Object Creation Date: 18th century - 19th century
Accession Number: 1957/1.88
Medium and Support: earthenware with glaze
Artist: Iran, Artist Unknown

Plate; Artist Unknown, Iran

Title: Plate
Artist: Artist Unknown, Iran
Century: 18th-19th century
Object Creation Date: 18th century - 19th century
Accession Number: 1957/1.91
Medium and Support: earthenware with glaze
Artist: Iran, Artist Unknown

Plate with deep red-brown glaze spashed with yellow (cracked); Artist Unknown, Iran

Title: Plate with deep red-brown glaze spashed with yellow (cracked)
Artist: Artist Unknown, Iran
Century: 17th-19th century
Object Creation Date: 17th century - 19th century
Accession Number: 1957/1.98
Medium and Support: earthenware with brown glaze splashed with yellow
Artist: Iran, Artist Unknown

Shallow open box with three compartments, adorned with women's faces; Artist Unknown, Iran

Title: Shallow open box with three compartments, adorned with women's faces
Artist: Artist Unknown, Iran
Physical Description: An open box with three components. It is made of earthenware and has blue and black decorations depicting female faces.
Century: 19th century
Object Creation Date: 19th century
Accession Number: 1957/1.99
Medium and Support: earthenware with blue and black underglaze painting
Artist: Iran, Artist Unknown

Bowl with foliate designs, after Cizhou ware; Artist Unknown, Iran

Title: Bowl with foliate designs, after Cizhou ware
Artist: Artist Unknown, Iran
Century: 18th-19th century
Object Creation Date: 18th century - 19th century
Accession Number: 1957/1.94
Medium and Support: earthenware with glaze
Artist: Iran, Artist Unknown

Textile fragment; Artist Unknown, Iran

Title: Textile fragment
Artist: Artist Unknown, Iran
Century: 19th century
Object Creation Date: 19th century
Accession Number: 1930.41
Medium and Support: embroidery
Artist: Iran, Artist Unknown

Textile fragment; Artist Unknown, Iran

Title: Textile fragment
Artist: Artist Unknown, Iran
Century: 19th century
Object Creation Date: 19th century
Accession Number: 1930.43
Medium and Support: printed cotton
Artist: Iran, Artist Unknown

Textile fragment; Artist Unknown, Iran

Title: Textile fragment
Artist: Artist Unknown, Iran
Century: 19th century
Object Creation Date: 19th century
Accession Number: 1930.40.1
Medium and Support: wool embroidery on red wool fabric
Artist: Iran, Artist Unknown

Carpet; Artist Unknown, Iran

Title: Carpet
Artist: Artist Unknown, Iran
Century: 19th Century
Object Creation Date: 19th century
Accession Number: 1955/1.182
Medium and Support: blue and red wool
Artist: Iran, Artist Unknown

Carpet; Artist Unknown, Iran

Title: Carpet
Artist: Artist Unknown, Iran
Century: 19th Century
Object Creation Date: 19th century
Accession Number: 1955/1.184
Medium and Support: tan and rose wool
Artist: Iran, Artist Unknown

Carpet; Artist Unknown, Iran

Title: Carpet
Artist: Artist Unknown, Iran
Century: 19th Century
Object Creation Date: 19th century
Accession Number: 1955/1.185
Medium and Support: tan, blue and rose wool
Artist: Iran, Artist Unknown

Salt Bag; Artist Unknown, Iran

Title: Salt Bag
Artist: Artist Unknown, Iran
Century: late 19th century
Object Creation Date: late 19th century
Accession Number: 2003/1.362
Medium and Support: wool, flatweave and pile
Artist: Iran, Artist Unknown

Salt Bag; Artist Unknown, Iran

Title: Salt Bag
Artist: Artist Unknown, Iran
Century: late 19th century
Object Creation Date: late 19th century
Accession Number: 2003/1.364
Medium and Support: wool, flatweave and pile
Artist: Iran, Artist Unknown

Rug; Iran, Shirvan

Title: Rug
Artist: Iran, Shirvan
Century: late 19th century
Object Creation Date: late 19th century
Accession Number: 1999/1.89
Medium and Support: wool
Artist: Iran, Shirvan

Piazza in the Veneto (recto); Three Soldiers? (verso); Anonymous Italian (Venetian)

Title: Piazza in the Veneto (recto); Three Soldiers? (verso)
Artist: Anonymous Italian (Venetian)
Century: 19th century
Object Creation Date: 19th Century
Accession Number: 1970/2.14
Medium and Support: pen and brown ink with gray wash over black chalk
Artist: Italian (Venetian), Anonymous

Majolica Platter; Anonymous Italian

Title: Majolica Platter
Artist: Anonymous Italian
Century: 19th-20th century
Object Creation Date: 19th century - 20th century
Accession Number: 1978/2.40
Medium and Support: earthenware with tin glaze
Artist: Italian, Anonymous

Acquedotto con Ponticello, Rome; Anonymous Italian

Title: Acquedotto con Ponticello, Rome
Artist: Anonymous Italian
Century: Late 19th century
Object Creation Date: late 19th century
Accession Number: 1987/1.341
Medium and Support: albumen print on paper
Artist: Italian, Anonymous

Campo SS Giovanni & Paolo (San Zanipolo) with Verrocchio's Colleoni Monument, Ve; Anonymous Italian

Title: Campo SS Giovanni & Paolo (San Zanipolo) with Verrocchio's Colleoni Monument, Ve
Artist: Anonymous Italian
Century: Late 19th century
Object Creation Date: late 19th century
Accession Number: 1987/1.342
Medium and Support: albumen print on paper
Artist: Italian, Anonymous