Water Vessel (lota)
Hindu, 1800
Scroll
Water Vessel (lota)
Hindu, 1800
Physical Qualities
Metal alloy, 3 H × 3 1/8 Diam. in. (7.5 × 8 cm.)
Credit Line
Lockwood de Forest Collection
Object Number
1922.2.72
Small jar with straight neck with stepped rim, decorated with upright narrow pointed leaves and chevrons; shoulder decorated with a flower scroll, and the body with five-petalled flowers in the interstices of a diamond-form lattice; low, slightly everted foot.
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.
Frances Klapthor, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Ornamental Art of India," January 30-May 18, 2008.
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. 312.
