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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

Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/a42113b8-1f44-3158-8fdf-053660977c7d

Use licence for this record: CC BY-NC

Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/a42113b8-1f44-3158-8fdf-053660977c7d, Victoria and Albert Museum, CC BY-NC

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