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Thai
Buddha bust, sheltered by Mucalinda (Khmer-Lopburi style)
12th century
Gift of John Adams Thierry in memory of Louis Sidney Thierry
1993/2.38

Khmer (Khmer (general))
Uma, torso (Khmer-Bayon style)
1100 – 1299
Gift of John Adams Thierry in memory of Louis Sidney Thierry
1993/2.49
Photograph of a headless toy doll, with another smaller doll stuck into its leg socket.
Ralph Eugene Meatyard (American (North American))
Untitled
1959 – 1963
Gift of Two Friends of the Museum
1996/2.42
A fragment of a stone slab, originally a facing on the drum of a small stupa, carved with a narrative scene. In this relief, he is converting devotees of the fire god Agni, the three ascetic Kasyapa brothers and their disciples. In this narrative, the Buddha asked to spend the night in the fire temple of Uruvilva Kasyapa. The temple’s fire god worshipers thought the fearsome fire serpent that dwelled within the temple would vanquish the Buddha. Instead, the fiery radiance of the meditating Buddha overwhelmed the serpent, who crawled into the Buddha’s alms bowl; the defeated snake appears in this sculpture below the Buddha. Meanwhile, the dazzling radiance the Buddha emits has been mistaken for flames and a fire brigade using ladders and pots of water has been formed to put out the fire, as can be seen here. Seated in the posture and gesture of meditation, the Buddha’s calm presence is in contrast to the action unfolding around him. The three Kasyapa brothers, with their beards and matted hair, are at the bo
Artist Unknown, Gandhara (Ancient Pakistan and Afghanistan)
Scene from the life of the Buddha: Buddha triumphs over the fire snake at the Fire Temple of Uruvilva Kasyapa (architectural fragment)
200 – 232
Museum purchase made possible by the Margaret Watson Parker Art Collection Fund
1972/2.41

Japanese (Japanese (culture or style))
Head of a Buddha, probably a 'kebutsu' (Buddha in a transformation body) from the crown of an Eleven-headed Avalokitesvara
13th century
Gift of Mrs. Caroline I. Plumer for the James Marshall Plumer Collection
1973/2.38
Light green gradient background with cracks, tape and marks.
Rebecca Davenport (American (North American))
Fragment of Wall
1975
Gift of the Estate of James van Sweden
2015/2.33
<br /> A clouded glass orb in a brass-colored metallic cap comprised of looped petal-like shapes connected to a thin metal stem.
Louis Comfort Tiffany
Chandelier Fragments
1890 – 1891
Museum purchase
2011/2.2.9
<br /> A clouded glass orb in a brass-colored metallic cap comprised of looped petal-like shapes connected to a thin metal stem.
Louis Comfort Tiffany
Chandelier Fragments
1890 – 1891
Museum purchase
2011/2.2.12
A clouded glass orb in a brass-colored metallic cap comprised of looped petal-like shapes connected to a thin metal stem, which in turn is attached to a thin brass ring about the same size as the glass orb.
Louis Comfort Tiffany
Chandelier Fragments
1890 – 1891
Museum purchase
2011/2.2.17
<br /> This is a clouded glass half-orb with blue as the predominent color, tinged by iridescence.
Louis Comfort Tiffany
Chandelier Fragments
1890 – 1891
Museum purchase
2011/2.2.18
<br /> This is a clouded glass half-orb with predominent colors of white and blue, tinged by iridescence.
Louis Comfort Tiffany
Chandelier Fragments
1890 – 1891
Museum purchase
2011/2.2.21
​<br /> This is a clouded glass half-orb with predominent colors of white and blue, tinged by iridescence.
Louis Comfort Tiffany
Chandelier Fragments
1890 – 1891
Museum purchase
2011/2.2.23
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