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571. Add Or 3664

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Add Or 3664
Title:
The Jagannatha trio installed in majesty in a shrine with below them three priests.
Scope & Content:
The Jagannatha trio installed in majesty in a shrine with below them three priests. Siva, white-skinned and wreathed with snakes, reveres them on the left, Brahma four-armed, four-headed and yellow skinned, reveres them on the right. At the bottom is the untouchables’ image of Jagannatha, situ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1800
Extent:
1 Item

572. Add Or 3665

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Add Or 3665
Title:
The Jagannath trio installed in majesty in a shrine with below them three priests.
Scope & Content:
A similar version of the same subject, substituting a lamp for the small black-skinned devotee beside the dancing Krishna. 275 by 245 mm. Note: The meaning of the epithet ‘Sudarsana’ in the name Sudarsana Cakra is either ‘handsome’or’keen-sighted’, the latter perhaps a reference to its power o...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1800
Extent:
1 Item

573. Add Or 3666

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Add Or 3666
Title:
The gods in their temple car preceded by a figure standing on a bull
Scope & Content:
The gods in their temple car preceded by a figure standing on a bull. The temple car has a green under-carriage and a single large black wheel. To the left, a cream-coloured bull with orange harness supports on its back a standing figure in green coat and trousers. Background reddish-madder. ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1800
Extent:
1 Item

574. Add Or 3667

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3667
Title:
Jagannatha in the role of Krishna slays the crane demon, Bakasura, by tearing apart its beak.
Scope & Content:
Jagannatha in the role of Krishna slays the crane demon, Bakasura, by tearing apart its beak. To the left, Balabhadra, a jovial, pot-bellied figure with fully formed arms and legs, white-skinned and with a dark green dhoti. In the middle, Subadhra, a yellow head on a slim black trunk. On the ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1800
Extent:
1 Item

575. Add Or 3668

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3668
Title:
Jagannatha in the form of Krishna steals the milkmaids clothes.
Scope & Content:
Jagannatha in the form of Krishna steals the milkmaids’ clothes. In the centre is a green stem-like tree with intertwined branches and yellow flowers, six sets of clothes twisted round their ends. Behind it at the bottom is an expanse of black water besprinkled with white flowers. On either s...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1800
Extent:
1 Item

576. Add Or 3669

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3669
Title:
The Chandana Jatra. A tank of black water studded with white flowers.
Scope & Content:
The Candana Jatra. A tank of black water studded with white flowers. On it two large boats in white and madder with raised-up ends. In the centre of each, a white shrine-like structure composed of three vertical towers tipped like lingams. On the left inside the ‘shrine’ a lithe black figure...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1800-1820
Extent:
1 Item

577. Add Or 3670

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3670
Title:
The gods stand on pipal leaves, Balabhadra, Subhadra and Jagannath.
Scope & Content:
The gods stand on pipal leaves. Balabhadra, Subadhra and Jagannatha backed by three large pipal leaves stand in angular troughs of waves on a band of black water sprinkled with green leaves and white flowers. In the water two large fishes. Balabhadra and Jagannatha are shown as post-like figu...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1800-1820
Extent:
1 Item

578. Add Or 3671

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Add Or 3671
Title:
The gods meet the milkmaid.
Scope & Content:
The gods meet the milkmaid. A version of Add.Or.3663 but with the following significant details. Balabhadra on a black horse is dressed in green and has a white face, hands and feet. Jagannatha on a white horse has a black face but is otherwise entirely yellow. Balabhadra has wooden ‘arms’ s...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1800-1820
Extent:
1 Item

579. Add Or 3672

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3672
Title:
The gods in their temple car preceded by a rider on a blue horse
Scope & Content:
Similar to 3841 but substituting a blue elephant for the blue horse. 245 by 250 mm. Note: The insertion of the blue elephant is perhaps inspired by the Asnan jatra or festival of the bath. ‘At this festival’, writes Stirling, ‘Jagannatha and his brother, after undergoing certain ablutions, as...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1800-1820
Extent:
1 Item

580. Add Or 3673

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3673
Title:
The Jagannatha trio in the setting of the Puri temple
Scope & Content:
A coarse and summary version of Add.Or.3664 and 3665 retaining the band of avataras at the top with Jagannatha inserted in the ninth place; replacing Brahma by a priest, and concentrating mainly on the trio shown as posts with large round heads and upraised wooden ‘arms’.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1800-1820
Extent:
1 Item