Spoon
48-29-225
From: India
Curatorial Section: Asian
| Object Number | 48-29-225 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Indian | Hindu |
| Provenience | India |
| Section | Asian |
| Materials | Brass |
| Description | Possibly sacrificial. Brass, ornamentation in relief and incised. Bowl: Krishna slaying the serpent Kaliya (a common motive in Indian metalwork and painting). Handle: Vishnu, four-headed (three showing), four-armed; upper right hodls the sun disk (?) (chakra), upper left the conch. Floral finial. Above heads possibly a Sanskrit inscription. (Inf. Dr. W. Norman Brown.) |
| Credit Line | Gift of Presbyterian Board of Missions, 1948 |
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