- Title:
- 'Manasa ghat'
- Object name(s):
- Vase
- Brief description:
- The hemispherical pot with short neck and everted rim stands on a conical pedestal which has a flattened lobed rim. The top of the pot bears the head of Manasa, garlanded with four cobras whose head rise on either side.
- Collection:
- Victoria and Albert Museum
- Associated concept:
- Folk Art
- Content - concept:
- Hinduism
- Current reproduction location:
- https://framemark.vam.ac.uk/collections/2020MU2410/full/!100,100/0/default.jpg
- Location type:
- Thumbnail
- Dimension:
- Height
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 37.3
- Dimension:
- Width
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 23.5
- Dimension:
- Depth
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 23
- Material:
- Terracotta
- Material:
- Paint
- Object history note:
- Purchased from Anthropos Gallery, London
- Object name:
- Vase
- Object number:
- IS.52-1979
- Object production date:
- c.1978
- Date - association:
- Made
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1978-01-01
- Date - latest:
- 1978-12-31
- Object production note:
- Collected from the village of Panchmura, Bankura District
- Object production person:
- Unknown
- Object production place:
- Bankura District
- Place association:
- Made
- Physical description:
- The hemispherical pot with short neck and everted rim stands on a conical pedestal which has a flattened lobed rim. The top of the pot bears the head of Manasa, garlanded with four cobras whose head rise on either side.
- Reproduction number:
- 2020MU2410
- Responsible department/section:
- SSEA
- Technique:
- fired
- Technique:
- Painted terracotta
- Text reason:
- Collections online record
- User's reference:
- Reference:
- Arts of Bengal : the heritage of Bangladesh and eastern India : an exhibition organized by the Whitechapel Art Gallery in collaboration with the Victoria and Albert Museum : 9 November-30 December 1979, Whitechapel Art Gallery ..., 12 January-17 February 1980, Manchester City Art Gallery ... . [London]: Whitechapel Art Gallery, [1979] Number: 085488047X (pbk.) :
- User's reference:
- Reference:
- Bussabarger, Robert and Betty Dashew Robins, Andrew Tau (photographer), The Everyday Art of India, New York: Dover Publications, Inc. 1968, pp.38-41.
- User's reference:
- Reference details:
- p.60
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Use licence for this record: CC BY-NC
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