Relief panel
Relief Panel
18th century (made)
18th century (made)
| Artist/Maker | |
| Place of origin |
A wooden relief carving with traces of paint depicting a battle between Kali and demons. Goddess Kali is shown here holding a sacrificial axe in one hand and in the other a headless corpse. The goddess is drinking blood from the neck of the corpse and her one foot is on a severed head. The panel also depicts crows drinking blood from the neck of other headless corpses. The panel may have formed part of a temple door or a processional chariot.
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Title | Relief panel (generic title) |
| Materials and techniques | Wood, carved |
| Brief description | Sculpture, wood, tinted, Kali, Bogra, Bangladesh |
| Physical description | A wooden relief carving with traces of paint depicting a battle between Kali and demons. Goddess Kali is shown here holding a sacrificial axe in one hand and in the other a headless corpse. The goddess is drinking blood from the neck of the corpse and her one foot is on a severed head. The panel also depicts crows drinking blood from the neck of other headless corpses. The panel may have formed part of a temple door or a processional chariot. |
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| Object history | Purchased from the estate of late J. C. French in 1955 |
| Production | A part of a wooden relief panel depicting Kali |
| Subject depicted | |
| Bibliographic reference | Arts of Bengal : the heritage of Bangladesh and eastern India : an exhibition organized by the Whitechapel Art Gallery in collaboration with the Victoria and Albert Museum : 9 November-30 December 1979, Whitechapel Art Gallery ..., 12 January-17 February 1980, Manchester City Art Gallery ... . [London]: Whitechapel Art Gallery, [1979] Number: 085488047X (pbk.) :
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| Collection | |
| Accession number | IS.25-1955 |
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| Record created | August 8, 2003 |
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