Playing Card Box

16585G

From: India | Maharashtra

Curatorial Section: Asian

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Object Number 16585G
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Indian | Hindu
Provenience India | Maharashtra
Date Made 19th Century - 1893
Section Asian
Materials Wood | Lacquer | Paint
Technique Lacquered | Painted
Iconography Shiva | Hanuman | Hindu Deity | Attendants | Gada | Trishula
Description

Box for holding Dasavatara ganjifa playing cards. Lacquered or painted wooden box with sliding lid. Interior and bottom in red. Each side and top painted a scene with Hindu deity at center and several subordinate figures. Top represents Ganesha on throne surrounded by four standing female attendants. The side scenes are: Hanuman with Gada or club raised faces two blue standing figures; seated Shiva with four standing female attendants; seated Vaishnavite ascetic on throne with four standing male attendants; and the child Krishna on throne with one standing male attendant and three standing female attendants. Possibly associated with 16585E.

Height 12 cm
Width 12.2 cm
Depth 13.4 cm
Credit Line Purchased from / at the World's Columbian Exposition, 1893

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