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Frieze


This appears to be a plaster cast of a portion of the drum frieze of the Amaravati Stupa. The original is in the British Museum, numbers 1860,0712.1 and 1880,0709.77.

A photograph of this with seven other fragments is held in the V&A's Word and Image Department (collection code PDP) numbered 67525 and described as fragments of friezes in the inner enclosure of Amaravati. It is one of a series of photographs by W. Griggs published in James Fergusson's 'Tree and Serpent Worship' (London, 1868).

Object details

Categories
Sculpture
Architecture
Object type
Frieze
Brief description
Plaster cast frieze, Amaravati relief. Probably either REPRO of Indian architecture or cast created by IS or IM or British Museum.
Physical description
This appears to be a plaster cast of a portion of the drum frieze of the Amaravati Stupa. The original is in the British Museum, numbers 1860,0712.1 and 1880,0709.77.

A photograph of this with seven other fragments is held in the V&A's Word and Image Department (collection code PDP) numbered 67525 and described as fragments of friezes in the inner enclosure of Amaravati. It is one of a series of photographs by W. Griggs published in James Fergusson's 'Tree and Serpent Worship' (London, 1868).
Production
It was tentatively suggested that this was one of the small number casts of the Sanchi stupa held at the V&A, but it appears to be a cast of a fragment of the Amaravati stupa in the British Museum's collection.
Associated object
67525 (Depiction)
Bibliographic references
  • Knox, Robert. Amaravati. Buddhist Sculpture from the Great Stupa. The Trustees of the British Museum, London, 1992. ISBN 0-7141-1452-9. Cat. 55, pp. 114-5.
  • Barnard, Nick. 'A Third-Century CE Nagarjunakonda Relief and Other Sculpture from Andhra Pradesh in the Victoria and Albert Museum' in Shimada, A. and Willis, M. (eds.) Amaravati: The Art of an Early Buddhist Monument in Context, British Museum Research Publication 207. The British Museum, London, 2016. ISBN 978 0861592074. p. 85, fig. 111
Other numbers
  • INDC.46 - Battersea decant temporary number
  • TN.491-2011 - Previous number
Collection
South & South East Asia Collection
Accession number
IS.77-2016

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Record createdOctober 10, 2011
Record URL
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