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Hindu Ganges Water Jar (Cambū)

Hindu, 1700

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Hindu Ganges Water Jar (Cambū)

Hindu, 1700

Physical Qualities Metal alloy, 5 11/16 H × 6 5/16 Diam. in. (14.5 × 16 cm.)
Credit Line Lockwood de Forest Collection
Object Number 1922.2.78
Globular jar with a narrow neck with everted rim, the interior decorated with pointed narrow leaves and triangles, on a high, spreading foot ; the body decorated with bands, the uppermost representing the celestial realm and the lower the sea. Five fish swim in the sea in the lowest register; in the next, Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva, a bull, a gate decorated with a sun disk, and a spreading tree; in the next, a festival cart being ridden by a monkey, a girl with a reclining man, three devotees, a horse with an umbrella and groom, Ganesh, a waterfall, a man with a fish tail, another with an unidentified tail, and an archer; in the topmost register, water pouring from a vase, forming a waterfall in the lower registers, a bull and three elephant-headed figures.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 1922; American Art Galleries, New York; Lockwood de Forest purchased in India, probably 1914
Frances Klapthor, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "90 Years of Asian Accessions: 1920-1940," (Lockwood de Forest, Julius Levy, Francis Burns Harvey, Mary Frick Jacobs, William H. Whitridge), July 2004-January 2005.
Frances Klapthor, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Ornamental Art of India," January 30-May 18, 2008.
Collection installation, "Asia. Offering Options," Levy Gallery, Baltimore Museum of Art, October 5, 2023-
Catalogue of the Rare and Valuable Examples of East Indian Persian and Syro-Damascan Art and Curios forming the private collection of the widely known artist and connoisseur Lockwood De Forest, Esq. of New York City, NY: American Art Association, 1922, no. 337.
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