painting
- Museum number
- 2004,0408,0.7
- Description
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Painting on paper of the goddess Kali, in Kalighat style. She is depicted haloed and four armed and striding over a recumbent Śiva. In her upper left she carries a sacrificial knife (ram-dao) and in her lower left she carries a decapitated head. She sticks her tongue out in the iconographically usual way. Silver paint has been used to indicate her many items of jewellery. Framed and glazed.
- Production date
- 19thC(late)
- Dimensions
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Height: 56 centimetres (Mounted)
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Height: 46 centimetres
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Width: 40.50 centimetres (Mounted)
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Width: 27.50 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Sep 2020 - Jan 2021, BM, Room 35, "Tantra: enlightenment to revolution"
- Condition
- The paper has discoloured and is torn at the bottom (part of the torso of Siva is lost) and small losses are seen at the top (left and right).
- Acquisition date
- 2004
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- 2004,0408,0.7