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Faceted bottle
1100 – 1299
Museum purchase made possible by the Margaret Watson Parker Art Collection Fund
1961/1.182
Vishnu stands with a slight sway to his body with his right hip thrust out, the tribhangha of “thrice bent pose.”  He has four hands to carry his attributes, his front two hold a lotus bud and a conch.  The back two hang down and rather than carry his two weapons are placed on personified figures of them.  At is right is the personified club and on his left his discus.   He wears a diaphanous lower cloth that is so sheer, it appears almost invisible, only the folds of the garment are articulated.  He wears a long garland down almost to his feet and a sacred thread to his waist.  He also wears various pieces of jewelry, including armlets, large earrings and an elaborate crown.  The whole is quite worn due to the way the image has been handled by devotees, who have touched it and applied various substances to it.  His eyes had been inlayed with silver to add  a certain realism to the piece.<br />
Indian (Indian (South Asian))
Vishnu with two attendants
9th century
Museum purchase, Acquisition Fund
1970/2.146

Chinese (Chinese (culture or style))
Pian hu (flask)
9500 BCE
Gift of John J. Schloss
2003/2.73

Chinese (Chinese (culture or style))
Ferrule (handle) of a Ge (dagger)
9519 BCE
Gift of Mrs. Caroline I. Plumer for the James Marshall Plumer Collection
1964/1.94A&B
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