Box lid depicting a kinnara couple
On display
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.
Details
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Title
Box lid depicting a kinnara couple
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Associated place
north-west India (place of creation) -
Date
6th century AD (AD 501 - 600)
Gupta Period (AD 320 - 600) -
Material and technique
steatite
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
1.1 x 10.6 x 8.3 cm max. (height x width x depth) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Bequeathed by Douglas and Mary Barrett, 2013.
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Museum location
Ground floor | Gallery 12 | India to AD 600 -
Museum department
Eastern Art
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Accession no.
EA2013.38
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Further reading
Ahuja, Naman, Art and Archaeology of Ancient India: Earliest Times to the Sixth Century (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2018), no. 65
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