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Radha

Figure
ca.1825-1865 (made)
Artist/Maker
Unknown
Place of origin
Bengal (made)

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

Category
Religion
Object type
Figure
TitleRadha (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.
Dimensions
  • Height: 14cm
  • Widest width: 6cm
  • Weight: 389g
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?
Subjects depicted
Hinduism
Radha
Bibliographic reference
Barnard, Nick, Indian Jewellery: The V&A Collection London: V&A Publishing, 2008 p.97
Collection
South & South East Asia Collection
Accession number
749C-1874

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Record createdMay 19, 2005
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O112111/radha-figure-unknown/
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