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Female head with headdress
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Details
- Associated place
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Asia › India › north India › Uttar Pradesh › Mathura district › Mathura (place of creation)
- Date
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1st half of the 6th century AD
Gupta Period (AD 320 - 600)
- Material and technique
- red sandstone
- Dimensions
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16 x 10 x 8.5 cm max. (height x width x depth)
with mount 23.5 x 10 x 8.5 cm max. (height x width x depth)
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by The Honourable Penelope Chetwode, 1961.
- Accession no.
- EA1961.138
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Further reading
Harle, J. C., and Andrew Topsfield, Indian Art in the Ashmolean Museum (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 1987), no. 30 on p. 23, p. 49, illus. p. 23
Harle, J. C., ‘A Gupta Ear-ring’, Leelananda Prematillike, Karthigesu Indrapala, and J. E. van Lohuizen-de Leeuw, eds, Senarat Paranavitana Commemoration Volume, Studies in South Asian Culture, 7 (Leiden: Brill, 1978), illus. pp. 78-80
Ahuja, Naman, ‘Early Indian Art at the Ashmolean Museum - Catalogue in progress’, 2016, no. 116
Location
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Ground floor | Room 12 | India to 600
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Ground floor | Room 12 | India to 600
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Indian Art in the Ashmolean Museum
Only the head remains of what was once a complete female figure in very high relief, probably part of a group. The face with its almond-shaped eyes and fleshy lips has the sensual calm, combined with a certain hard-edged quality, of Mathura Buddhas of c.450 A.D. except that the gaze is not downcast, with the consequent exaggeration of the upper lid. The headdress, on the other hand, belongs to the very end of the Gupta period (c.320-550 A.D.) or even the outset of the post-Gupta, as does the right ear-ring, its “bar” already taking the form of a little baluster.
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