Radha
Figure
ca.1825-1865 (made)
ca.1825-1865 (made)
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A standing figure of Radha looking upwards with her right hand stretched out and the left one hanging down. She stands on a circular plinth decorated with incised lotus petals. Her hair is knotted on top with an object like a feather or leaf in the front. She wears a pleated skirt cloth and cross-over body jewellery round her breasts as well as arm bands, bracelets, anklets and circular ear rings.
Object details
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Object type | |
Title | Radha (generic title) |
Materials and techniques | copper alloy, brassy colour, light wear. |
Brief description | Radha, Bengal, copper alloy, 1825-1875 |
Physical description | A standing figure of Radha looking upwards with her right hand stretched out and the left one hanging down. She stands on a circular plinth decorated with incised lotus petals. Her hair is knotted on top with an object like a feather or leaf in the front. She wears a pleated skirt cloth and cross-over body jewellery round her breasts as well as arm bands, bracelets, anklets and circular ear rings. |
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Object history | Bought from the William Tayler collection in 1874. The South Indian Museum purchased over 1,000 miscellaneous Indian objects from William Tayler, who went to India in 1829 retiring to England in 1867. Tayler collected pieces for his ‘Indian Museum’ while Postmaster-General of Bengal (1845-50) during which he recorded in his published memoirs that he had visited ‘almost every station in Orissa and Bengal’, as well as ’Darjeeling, Simlah and Nepal’, quoted in Barnard, 2008. |
Production | Bengal? |
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Bibliographic reference | Barnard, Nick, Indian Jewellery: The V&A Collection London: V&A Publishing, 2008
p.97 |
Collection | |
Accession number | 749C-1874 |
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Record created | May 19, 2005 |
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