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Model of Sanchi Stupa

Model of Sanchi Stupa
1870 (Made)
Place of origin
India (Made)



Object details

Object type
Model of sanchi stupa
TitleModel of Sanchi Stupa
Materials and techniques
Soapstone
Plaster
Dimensions
  • One side of square base width: 87cm
  • One side of square base depth: 87cm
  • Overall height including gateways height: 40cm
  • Approx height of domb height: 33cm
Object history
An original label says the model is of soapstone and that it was made from drawings taken in the survey of Sanchi stupa carried out in 1870, under the direction of Lieutenant Henry Hardy Cole. Cole was the son of Sir Henry Cole, first Director of the South Kensington Museum (renamed Victoria and Albert Museum in 1899). He also organised the making of a plaster cast of the Stupa's eastern gateway, which was displayed in the Museum's architecture court, and in 1870-71 of other buildings in Delhi and Fatehpur Sikri.
Bibliographic references
  • Pollen, John Hungerford. A description of the architecture and monumental sculpture in the south-east court of the the South Kensington Museum / by John Hungerford Pollen. London: Printed by George E. Eyre and William Spottiswoode for H.M.S.O, 1874 p. 78
  • Traces of India : Photography, Architecture, and the Politics of Representation, 1850-1900 / edited by Maria Antonella Pelizzari. Montréal : New Haven, CT : Usmanpura : Canadian Centre for Architecture; Yale University Press; Mapin Publishing, 2003. Number: 0920785743 (Canadian Centre for Architecture/Yale Center for British Art), 0300098960 (Yale University Press), 8188204145 (Mapin Publishing) p. 294, n. 27
Collection
South & South East Asia Collection
Accession number
REPRO.1870-17

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Record createdJuly 20, 2004
Record URL
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