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Detailed folio depicting colorful scenes of royal figures and dancing and wrestling performances in margins. Principle image shows four-armed divinity applying spiritual-related mark to enthroned figure’s forehead.

Folio Illustrating the Suvarnaksari Kalpasutra

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Artist
Unknown (Indian)
Title
Folio Illustrating the Suvarnaksari Kalpasutra
Date
ca. 1475
Medium
Opaque watercolor and gold on paper
Dimensions
4 1/4 x 9 7/8 in. Overall
Credit
Gift of Jane Werner Watson
Accession No.
1972.38
Geography
India

Related

Ca. 1970-71, lent by Jane Werner Watson (Santa Barbara, CA) to Elvehjem Art Center [now called Chazen Museum of Art]; 13 November 1972, gifted to Elvehjem Art Center [now called Chazen Museum of Art]

  • Elvehjem Art Center. "Indian Miniature Painting: The Collection of Earnest C. Watson & Jane Werner Watson." Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1971. no. 3
  • Elvehjem Museum of Art. "Two Faces of South Asian Art: Textiles and Paintings." Madison: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 1984. no. 2.2a-b
  • Elvehjem Art Center. "Bulletin 1972-1973." Madison: Elvehjem Art Center (1973). illus. no. 19

  • Courtship in Indian Miniatures from the Watson Collection: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 11/10/2001–1/6/2002
  • Two Faces of South Asian Art: Textiles and Painting: , 2/4/1984–3/18/1984
  • New Acquisitions from the Far East: Elvehjem Art Center, 11/5/1973–1/6/1974
  • Indian Miniature Painting: The Collection of Earnest C. and James Werner Watson: Elvehjem Art Center, 10/29/1971–1/2/1972

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