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1. Add Or 2546

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Add Or 2546
Title:
A Crimson Horned Pheasant (Tragopan satyra). Artist(s): Jagrup Lal (c.1800-1860)
Scope & Content:
A Crimson Horned Pheasant ‘(Tragopan satyra).’ Inscribed on front in ‘nagari’ characters:’ bunugmohanas’(?). By Jagrup Lal (c.1800-c.1860), an Arrah artist, c.1850. Water-colour; 9 by 7.25 ins. Presented by Michael Archer, 30 January 1969. Note: Obtained by W.G. Archer at Patna in 1948 from...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1850
Extent:
1 Item

2. Add Or 2550

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Add Or 2550
Title:
A pair of Nuktas or Old World Comb-ducks (Sarkidiornis melanotos). After C.W. Smith. Artist(s): Fakir Chand Lal (c.1790-c.1865) after Smith, Christopher Webb (b.1793)
Scope & Content:
A pair of Nuktas or Old World Comb-ducks ‘(Sarkidiornis melanotos)’ swimming on a lake with a group of Pintails ‘(Anas acuta)’ in the background. By Fakir Chand Lal (c.1790-c.1865), a Patna artist, c.1850. Water-colour; 7.25 by 9 ins. Presented by Michael Archer, 30 January 1969. Note: Obtai...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1850
Extent:
1 Item

3. Add Or 3318

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Add Or 3318
Title:
Two parrots with leaf and flowers. By Maithil Brahmin children
Scope & Content:
Two parrots with leaf and flowers. 136 by 215 mm.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1920-1940
Extent:
1 Item

4. Add Or 3407

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Add Or 3407
Title:
A white monkey with a black mouth, feet, and paws, addressing a large stork-like bird with a brown neck.
Scope & Content:
A white monkey with black mouth, feet and paws, its skin spotted with black dots, holding a fruit and addressing a large stork-like bird with brown neck, black body and brown and white plumage. Below, a brown Santal-like figure in striped drawers holding out a brown bag or basket and addressing...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1920
Extent:
1 Item

5. Add Or 3472

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3472
Title:
A large yellow tiger, black-spotted except for stripes on the neck; below, a coiled up snake, a bear and a peacock.. Artist(s): Budeshwar Chitrakar (fl. c.1940)
Scope & Content:
A large yellow ‘tiger’, black-spotted except for black stripes on the neck; below, a coiled up snake, a bear and a peacock. Reproduced: M. Archer (1967), p.81. Note: The ‘tiger’ is here regarded as Baghut bonga (see Introduction to printed catalogue). For the Shahabad cult of Baghaut (a man w...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1940
Extent:
1 Item

6. Add Or 3563

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Add Or 3563
Title:
A pigeon; above, a palmette.. Artist(s): Chedi Mali (fl.1938)
Scope & Content:
A pigeon; above, a palmette. Note: Identified as a pigeon by the artist but shown with a peacock’s crest.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1938
Extent:
1 Item

7. Add Or 3565

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Add Or 3565
Title:
A tiger with a pigeon pecking at its open mouth; above, a palmette.. Artist(s): Chedi Mali (fl.1938) family of
Scope & Content:
A tiger with a pigeon pecking at its open mouth; above, a palmette. Note: As in other examples of village art tigers are frequently shown with leopard’s spots rather than with stripes.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1938
Extent:
1 Item

8. Add Or 3566

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Add Or 3566
Title:
An elephant; above, a pigeon.. Artist(s): Chedi Mali (fl.1938) family of
Scope & Content:
An elephant; above, a pigeon.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1938
Extent:
1 Item

9. Add Or 3567

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3567
Title:
A pigeon; above, a palmette.. Artist(s): Chedi Mali (fl.1938) family of
Scope & Content:
A pigeon; above, a palmette.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1938
Extent:
1 Item

10. Add Or 3816

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Add Or 3816
Title:
Birds
Scope & Content:
Birds. 190 by 299 mm. Studies of two pigeons, two cockerels and a red-vented bulbul.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1860
Extent:
1 Item