An octagonal dish with basketry sides and a set of five foliate dishes exhibit the effects achieved with painting, from the utterly restrained and subdued to the most colorful and jaunty, whereas mother-of-pearl inlaid designs embellish a small and larger box and a low table.
Vishnu is one of the three main gods in Hinduism and venerated as the Supreme Being who himself embodies the entire universe. A rare depiction of Vishnu in yogic posture, this powerful bronze image from Himachal Pradesh has much in common with another image of Vishnu and Lakshmi, also from Himachal Pradesh, in the Norton Simon Museum collection.
Globular neriage (marbleized) vase with striped rough layers of brown, blue, and white colored clays and slightly raised mouth, ca. 1980. Stoneware with marbleized colored clay inlays.
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