Relief panel
Sculpture
8th century-9th century (made)
8th century-9th century (made)
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Fragment of a relief panel. It depicts to the left a column garlanded with conventional beading hanging from an angular band on the shaft and to the right a mythical griffin-like animal standing in a rampant position on its hind legs.
Object details
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| Title | Relief panel (generic title) |
| Materials and techniques | Shale |
| Brief description | Fragment of a relief sculpture; shale; Rajgir, Bihar; 8th-9th Century. |
| Physical description | Fragment of a relief panel. It depicts to the left a column garlanded with conventional beading hanging from an angular band on the shaft and to the right a mythical griffin-like animal standing in a rampant position on its hind legs. |
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| Object history | Purchased from Sotheby sale on 1 August 1939, lot no. 192. Formerly in the collection of H.E. the Baron Ow-Wachendorf, former German Minister in Cairo. He had been a German Rhodes scholar at Oxford before the first World War and consul-general in Calcutta in the 'twenties. |
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| Accession number | IM.160-1939 |
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| Record created | March 28, 2002 |
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