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- 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
- relevance
- rank 22.68373
- Style/Group/Movement
- Jain bronze altar
![Malli shrine, dated VS 1528 [1471 A.D.]; Artist Unknown, India, Gujarat](https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1975-sl-2.121/1975_2.121.JPG?lasttype=boolean;lastview=reslist;resnum=2;size=50;sort=relevance;start=1;subview=detail;view=entry;rgn1=musart_sgm;select1=phrase;q1=Jain+bronze+altar){kind=link}
- Title
- Malli shrine, dated VS 1528 [1471 A.D.]
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Gujarat
- Physical Description
- The jina Malli sits in the lotus position on an inlayed cushion on a tiered throne. Seated with his hands folded in a gesture of meditation, he is surrounded by a number of figures representing other jinas, attendants and demigods. In the center in front of the throne sits the goddess Ambika with a child on her lap. On the first tier of the throne sit two figures that may represent donors. On the next left are nine mounds representing the nine planets [navagraha], five to his right and four to his left. At the base of his seat are two stylized lions and this is flanked by a male and female demigod. On the arch surrounding the figure at his level a standing jina figure is to each side and cauri bearer is on the outside of each of them. At his shoulders, the cross bars of the throne back end in stylized makara heads with jewels hanging from their mouths. A seated jina adorns the arch to each side of his head and elephants surmount them with an umbrella over his head with a dancing figure atop it. The whole is surmounted by an auspicious lota or pot. Diamond shaped copper and silver pieces adorn the pillow and parts of the throne back and silver inlay highlight his eyes and chest jewel.
- Century
- 15th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1471
- Accession Number
- 1975/2.121
- Medium and Support
- brass with copper and silver inlay
- relevance
- rank 22.68373
- Style/Group/Movement
- Jain bronze altar
- 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
- relevance
- rank 22.68373
- Style/Group/Movement
- Jain bronze altar
- Title
- Padmavati with Parshva
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, India, Maharashtra
- Physical Description
- Padmavati sits on a raised tiered square base. She sits on a narrow rounded seat with one leg crossed in her lap and the other slightly pendant. She has four arms and the right back one is broken. On the palm of her front right hand which is in the gesture of reassurance. She holds a mango in her front left hand and the base of some vegetative form in the back left hand. Her tight fitting lower garment is decorated with incised lines in stripes and incised lines delineate her necklace and encircle her breasts. She wears large plain earrings [?] and a conical crown. Her head is surmounted by a seven headed snake hood, symbolizing her snake nature and seated atop the hood is a figure of the jina Pashva in a half lotus position and his hands folded in a gesture of meditation. He is turn is toped by a five headed snake hood signifying Padmavati’s consort the nagaraja Dharanendra.
- Century
- 18th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1709
- Accession Number
- 1977/2.47
- Medium and Support
- brass
- relevance
- rank 22.68373
- Style/Group/Movement
- Jain bronze altar