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121. Add Or 3344

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Add Or 3344
Title:
Kurma (tortoise) avatar
Scope & Content:
‘Kurma’ (tortoise) ‘avatara;’ second incarnation of Visnu. 450 by 265 mm Reproduced: M. Archer (1967), pl.68.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1865
Extent:
1 Item

122. Add Or 3353

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3353
Title:
Siva and Parvati on the bull, Nandi.. Artist(s): Nibaran Chandra Ghosh (c.1835-1930)
Scope & Content:
Siva and Parvati on the bull, Nandi. 455 by 265 mm.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1880
Extent:
1 Item

123. Add Or 3362

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3362
Title:
Haragauri (Siva in bi-sexual form). Artist(s): Kali Charan Ghosh (1844-1930)
Scope & Content:
Painting of a religious subject. Haragauri (Siva in bisexual form). By a patua, Kalighat, c.1890. Water-colour; 130 by 90 mm. Presented to W.G. Archer by Howard Hodgkin, London, 1961. Purchased 1974. Note: For other examples from the same series acquired in 1961 from Howard Hodgkin by the ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1890
Extent:
1 Item

124. Add Or 3363

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3363
Title:
Kartikkeya. Artist(s): Kali Charan Ghosh (1844-1930)
Scope & Content:
Kartikkeya.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1900
Extent:
1 Item

125. Add Or 3371

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3371
Title:
Courtesan smoking a hookah.. Artist(s): Kanai Lal Ghosh (fl.1920s)
Scope & Content:
Ganesa.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1925
Extent:
1 Item

126. Add Or 3384

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3384
Title:
Three gods on lotuses
Scope & Content:
Three ‘gods’ on lotuses: the centre one with two heads in profile and with four arms, the left standing and facing right, the right seated with face three-quarter view. Note: Interpreted by Jogendra Citrakar of village Jogidih, Dumka subdivision, Santal Parganas, as Visnu, Brahma and Siva but r...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1920
Extent:
1 Item

127. 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

128. Add Or 3521

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 3521
Title:
The goddess Kali.
Scope & Content:
Part of a scroll painting depicting the goddess Kali. By a jadupatua of Jamtara subdivision, Santal Parganas district, Bihar, c.1930. Water-colour; width 290 mm. Collected by W.G. Archer, 1945. Purchased 1974. The goddess Kali, black-skinned with four arms, holding two knives and a sever...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1930
Extent:
1 Item

129. Add Or 3664

Reference (shelfmark):
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

130. Add Or 3665

Reference (shelfmark):
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

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