Nitai and Gaur

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Artist/Maker	Unknown
Place of origin	Kolkata (made)

Painting, in opaque watercolour and tin alloy on paper, depicting Nitai and Gaur, worshippers of Krishna, standing on lotus pedestals. Each wears a lilac dhoti and a red shawl with silver details (executed in tin alloy) on the borders.

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Categories	Paintings Hinduism Religion Bonita Trust Indian Paintings Cataloguing Project
Object type	Painting
Title	Nitai and Gaur (generic title)
Materials and techniques	Painted in opaque watercolour and tin alloy on paper Opaque Watercolour Paper Paint Tin Alloy Painted
Brief description	Painting, Nitai and Gaur, opaque watercolour and tin alloy on paper, Kalighat, Kolkata, ca. 1865-1870
Physical description	Painting, in opaque watercolour and tin alloy on paper, depicting Nitai and Gaur, worshippers of Krishna, standing on lotus pedestals. Each wears a lilac dhoti and a red shawl with silver details (executed in tin alloy) on the borders.
Dimensions	Height: 438mm (maximum) Width: 275mm (maximum) 31/07/2013 dimensions measured as part of Indian Paintings cataloguing Project 2013; object irregular in shape.
Content description	Nitai and Gaur, worshippers of Krishna, standing on lotus pedestals.
Style	Kalighat
Credit line	Given by the University Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Cambridge, to which the series was presented by Mrs. Western of Langbrookside, Havant, Hampshire.
Object history	Given by the University Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Cambridge, to which it was presented by Mrs Western of Langrookside, Havant, Hampshire
Subjects depicted	Worship Worshippers Lotus Nitai Gaur
Bibliographic reference	Archer, W G: 'Kalighat Paintings', V&A, 1971, p54, 10xii
Collection	South & South East Asia Collection
Accession number	IS.243-1953

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Record created	June 25, 2009
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O432700/nitai-and-gaur-painting-unknown/

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