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Title

Durga Copper Plate

Artist

Artist Unknown, India, Kulu, Himachal Pradesh

Physical Description

An eight armed goddess sits astride a tiger with uplifted tail. She carries a noose, punch dagger, shankha, and trident in her right hands and a bow, ring-like discus, arrow and shield in her left arms. She wears a long garland of either large rudraksa or heads around her heck along with other necklaces and pendants. She sits with legs pendant wearing a long skirt. Behind the figure a Om symbol with the end of the letter twirled around it twice and the word Shri written in Devanagari script. Below the figure a grid of letters forms a sacred diagram. The lines forming the grid all end in trident forms. Each square of the grid houses a different letter in nagari.

Century

19th-20th century

Object Creation Date

19th century - 20th century

Accession Number

1975/2.146

Medium and Support

copper

relevance

rank 17.33489

Primary Keywords

females, human

hinduism

tigers

Title

Clay Image (Q) (highly abstracted haniwa female figure and pot)

Artist

Saitô Kiyoshi

Physical Description

This work is a depiction of haniwa, clay figures used as tomb burial objects during the Kôfun Period (250–338 CE) that have come to be emblematic of Japanese art and cultural traditions.

Artist Life Dates

(active 1907 - 1997)

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

1954

Accession Number

1958/2.25

Medium and Support

color woodblock print on paper

relevance

rank 17.33489

Primary Keywords

abstraction

females, human

pots

Title

Jina, fragment of a larger shrine

Artist

Artist Unknown, India

Century

20th-century

Object Creation Date

circa 15th century

Accession Number

1975/2.123

Medium and Support

copper

relevance

rank 17.14637

Primary Keywords

females, human

jaina

jainism

shrine

Title

Durga copper plate with mystic design

Artist

Artist Unknown, India, Kulu, Himachal Pradesh

Physical Description

A ten-armed figure sits with her legs tucked under her on a tiger with a long uplifted tail. The figure is incised onto the copper plate with a chisel. One set of arms are crossed across her chest, while all but six hands hold weapons. A crossed spear and trident form an X behind the figure. She has wide bracelets at each of her wrists and wears elaborate circular earrings and nose ring with a three partite crown. Two lines in devanagari script are above the figure.

Century

19th-20th century

Object Creation Date

18th century - 20th century

Accession Number

1975/2.145

Medium and Support

copper

relevance

rank 16.96192

Primary Keywords

females, human

hinduism

spear

tiger

trident