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- 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
- relevance
- rank 28.20396
- 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
- relevance
- rank 28.20396
- Title
- Descent of the River Ganges
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Central India, Bundelkhand
- Physical Description
- In this intensely lyrical painting from Bundelkhand in Central India, the great river is shown tumbling from the night sky. Ascetics sit cross-legged on the mountainside, offering their austerities to Shiva, while women come to venerate Ganga. The river teems with life—crocodiles, turtles, fish, and birds—while lions, leopards, jackals, monkeys, and rabbits cavort on its banks.
- Century
- 18th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1775
- Accession Number
- 1979/1.148
- Medium and Support
- ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
- relevance
- rank 27.93213
- Title
- Ganesa
- Artist
- India, Central India
- Century
- 10th century
- Object Creation Date
- 10th century
- Accession Number
- 1983/2.115
- Medium and Support
- sandstone
- relevance
- rank 24.41525
- Title
- Head of Shiva
- Artist
- India, Central India
- Century
- 10th-11th century
- Object Creation Date
- 10th century - 11th century
- Accession Number
- 1998/1.182
- Medium and Support
- sandstone
- relevance
- rank 24.41525
- Title
- Folk Figure
- Artist
- India, Central India
- Century
- 20th-century
- Object Creation Date
- 20th century
- Accession Number
- 1979/2.41
- Medium and Support
- bronze
- relevance
- rank 24.41525
- Title
- Siva and Paravati
- Artist
- India, Central India
- Century
- 12th century
- Object Creation Date
- 12th century
- Accession Number
- 1980/2.293
- Medium and Support
- sandstone
- relevance
- rank 24.41525
- 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
- relevance
- rank 24.41525
- Title
- Folk Shiva with Flaming Arch
- Artist
- India, Central India
- Century
- 20th-century
- Object Creation Date
- 20th century
- Accession Number
- 1979/2.63
- Medium and Support
- bronze
- relevance
- rank 24.41525
- Title
- Folk archer
- Artist
- India, Central India
- Century
- 17th-18th century
- Object Creation Date
- 17th century - 18th century
- Accession Number
- 1976/2.72
- Medium and Support
- bronze
- relevance
- rank 24.41525
- Title
- Standing figure of Shiva
- Artist
- India, Central India
- Physical Description
- Shiva stands in an unbending pose and the sculpture is broken just below the knees. He is two-armed and his right hand is raised with his palm outward. His left arm is broken away. He wears a short lower garment with incised lines delineating folds and he is ithyphallic, his upraised penis extending up from behind his belt. He wears simple jewelry, a belt, armlets, a bracelet on the one wrist still extant and a simple beaded necklace. There is an auspicious diamond pattern in the middle of his chest. He has a fleshy face with a full mouth and large eyes, a third eye is incised on his forehead. His hair is done in an elaborate coiffure piled high.
- Century
- 10th-11th century
- Object Creation Date
- 10th century - 11th century
- Accession Number
- 1998/1.181
- Medium and Support
- sandstone
- relevance
- rank 24.41525
- Title
- Two Figures
- Artist
- India, Central India
- Century
- 18th-19th century
- Object Creation Date
- 18th century - 19th century
- Accession Number
- 1977/2.75
- Medium and Support
- bronze
- relevance
- rank 24.41525
- Title
- Ganesha
- Artist
- India, Central India
- Century
- 10th-12th century
- Object Creation Date
- 10th century - 12th century
- Accession Number
- 1981/1.317
- Medium and Support
- sandstone
- relevance
- rank 24.41525
- Title
- Aspara (Heavenly Maiden)
- Artist
- India, Central India
- Century
- 10th-12th century
- Object Creation Date
- 10th century - 12th century
- Accession Number
- 1981/1.316
- Medium and Support
- beige sandstone
- relevance
- rank 24.41525
- Title
- Bala Krishna
- Artist
- India, Central India
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 20th century
- Accession Number
- 1977/2.98
- Medium and Support
- copper
- relevance
- rank 24.41525
- Title
- Shiva surrounded by arch and two hounds
- Artist
- India, Central India
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 20th century
- Accession Number
- 1979/2.73
- Medium and Support
- bronze
- relevance
- rank 24.41525
- Title
- Vishnu
- Artist
- India, Central India
- Century
- 11th - 12th century
- Object Creation Date
- 11th century - 12th century
- Accession Number
- 2000/2.159
- Medium and Support
- sandstone
- relevance
- rank 24.41525
- Title
- Equestrian Folk Figure
- Artist
- India, Central India
- Century
- 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- 19th century
- Accession Number
- 1979/2.45
- Medium and Support
- bronze
- relevance
- rank 24.41525
- Title
- Folk Durga Holding an Offering Bowl in Each Hand
- Artist
- India, Central India
- Century
- 17th-18th century
- Object Creation Date
- 17th century - 18th century
- Accession Number
- 1976/2.71
- Medium and Support
- bronze
- relevance
- rank 24.41525
- Title
- Celestial Maiden Removing a Thorn from her Foot
- Artist
- India, Central India
- Century
- 10th-11th century
- Object Creation Date
- 10th century - 11th century
- Accession Number
- 2005/2.79
- Medium and Support
- sandstone
- relevance
- rank 24.41525
- Title
- Head
- Artist
- India, Central India
- Century
- 8th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 8th century
- Accession Number
- 1975/2.196
- Medium and Support
- sandstone
- relevance
- rank 24.41525
- Title
- Figure of a male deity holding a mace in his right hand and an offering bowl in his left hand
- Artist
- India, Central India
- Century
- 17th-18th century
- Object Creation Date
- 17th century - 18th century
- Accession Number
- 1976/2.73
- Medium and Support
- bronze
- relevance
- rank 24.41525
- Title
- Surya (sun-god)
- Artist
- India, Central India
- Century
- 10th-12th century
- Object Creation Date
- 10th century - 12th century
- Accession Number
- 1981/1.314
- Medium and Support
- stone
- relevance
- rank 24.41525
- Title
- Folk Deva
- Artist
- India, Central India
- Century
- 18th-19th century
- Object Creation Date
- 18th century - 19th century
- Accession Number
- 1977/2.76
- Medium and Support
- bronze
- relevance
- rank 24.41525