Explore the early development of Indian art, from the artefacts of the Indus Valley to the Hindu and Buddhist sculpture of north India and Gandhara.
This lid is decorated with a kinnara loving couple, among luxuriant scrolls. Kinnaras (and female kinnaris) are semi-divine celestial beings, half human and half bird or animal.
Ahuja, Naman, ‘Early Indian Art at the Ashmolean Museum - Catalogue in progress’, 2016, no. 65
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