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291. Add Or 3502

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3502
Title:
Krishna with milkmaids. Artist(s): Kirtan Chitrakar (fl. 1940s)
Scope & Content:
Krishna, seated on a stool, addressing two milkmaids with pots of curd on their heads; below, ferrying three milkmaids in a boat across the river Jumna.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1940
Extent:
1 Item

292. Add Or 3503

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3503
Title:
Krishna with milkmaids. Artist(s): Kirtan Chitrakar (fl. 1940s)
Scope & Content:
Krishna carrying two pots of curd on a yoke; on either side a milkmaid with a pot of curd on her head. Below Krishna, seated on a stool, addressing three milkmaids who have laid their pots before him.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1940
Extent:
1 Item

293. Add Or 3504

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3504
Title:
Krishna playing the flute, Radha standing before him. Artist(s): Kirtan Chitrakar (fl. 1940s)
Scope & Content:
Krishna playing the flute, Radha standing beside him, two milkmaids with upraised fans.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1940
Extent:
1 Item

294. Add Or 3505

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3505
Title:
Visnu , Brahma and Siva seated side by side on a cot. Below, Krishna fluting with Radha. Artist(s): Kirtan Chitrakar (fl. 1940s)
Scope & Content:
Visnu, Brahma and Siva seated side by side on a cot. Below, Krishna fluting with Radha, a flowering tree on either side. Inscribed in Bengali characters: ‘ras lila’ (play of delight).
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1940
Extent:
1 Item

295. Add Or 3506

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3506
Title:
Six milkmaids dancing . Below, the infant Krishna milking a blue cow, a small calf standing beside it.. Artist(s): Kirtan Chitrakar (fl. 1940s)
Scope & Content:
Six milkmaids dancing. Below, the infant Krishna with yellow skin seated on a stool milking a blue cow, a small white calf with blue spots and tufted ears standing beside it.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1940
Extent:
1 Item

296. Add Or 3507

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3507
Title:
The Baha festival - figures and monkey. Artist(s): Kirtan Chitrakar (fl. 1940s)
Scope & Content:
The Baha festival. Two majestic figures swathed in yellow dhotis with stunted arms upraised standing on either side of a short female figure; the left figure with white face and chest, the right figure with blue face and chest. Below, a blue monkey-like figure seated on a foot stool addressing...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1940
Extent:
1 Item

297. Add Or 3508

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3508
Title:
A suppliant figure kneeling before a four -headed, two-armed figure with massive head-dress. Below, two rows of 18 heads.. Artist(s): Kirtan Chitrakar (fl. 1940s)
Scope & Content:
A suppliant figure with long scarf kneeling before a four-headed, two-armed figure with massive head-dress seated on a cot. Below, two rows of eighteen severed heads - the top row dripping blood in a thin trickle, the lower row surmounting a series of yellow and reddish brown stripes (streams o...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1940
Extent:
1 Item

298. Add Or 3509

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3509
Title:
Eight Vaisnava devotees engaged in kirtan chanting praise of Krishna (Hari), with musicians. A bullock about to be sacrificed. Two headless corpses, their severed heads below them.. Artist(s): Kirtan Chitrakar (fl. 1940s)
Scope & Content:
Eight Vaisnava devotees engaged in ‘kirtan’ chanting praise of Krishna (Hari). In the centre a drummer with thin cylindrical drum, on either side of him a figure clashing cymbals, to the left, a figure with upraised arms, on the right, two further figures also with upraised arms. Below them tw...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1940
Extent:
1 Item

299. Add Or 3510

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3510
Title:
Three man in a row seated before cooking pots piled one above another. Below, a pair of men and a pair of women, one chastising the other with a broom.. Artist(s): Kirtan Chitrakar (fl. 1940s)
Scope & Content:
Three men in a row seated before three cooking pots piled one above another. Below, a pair of men and a pair of women, one chastising the other with a ‘broom’. Inscribed in Bengali characters, above: ‘anna kiniya khai’ (we buy rice for our food); below: ‘jhatar bari’ (to beat with a broom). N...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1940
Extent:
1 Item

300. Add Or 3511

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3511
Title:
Radha and Krishna. Artist(s): Kirtan Chitrakar (fl. 1940s)
Scope & Content:
Radha and Krishna standing together in an alcove with Krishna holding a flute, two milkmaids fanning them. Reproduced: M. Archer (1970), pl.73.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1943
Extent:
1 Item