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The richly dressed sculpture in the central niche is Shri Nathaji, an alternative name for Krishna, and the principal deity of the Vallabha Sampraday sect, to which the Kotah ruling family belonged. A priest is shown performing the lamp-waving ceremony before Shri Nathaji. At right is a small costumed sculpture of Krishna playing the flute.
Artist Unknown, India, Rajasthan, Kotah School
Adoration of Shri Nathji
1825 – 1835
Museum purchase made possible by Shahid and Takako Jamil and the Margaret Watson Parker Art Collection Fund
2003/2.9
Fresh greens for the foliage and dark blue clouds sprinkled with lightning set the rain celebration scene. Court ladies have gathered on the lawn, and some swing under a blossoming tree, while the raja and a woman watch the exciement below from a balcony of his white palace.
Artist Unknown, India, Rajasthan, Kotah School
A celebration of the rains
1800 – 1832
Gift of Mr. George P. Bickford for the James Marshall Plumer Memorial Collection
1964/2.114
Image of a man on horseback with two men flanking him
Artist Unknown, India, Rajasthan, Kotah School
Portrait of Maharao Ram Singh II of Kotah (r. 1827-66) on horseback, with two attendants
1835 – 1845
Gift of Professor Walter M. and Nesta R. Spink in honor of Mrs. James Marshall Plumer on the occasion of her ninetieth birthday
1992/1.118

Artist Unknown, India, Rajasthan, Kotah School
Bracelet
Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Leo S. Figiel and Dr. and Mrs. Steven J. Figiel
1979/2.50
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