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Card Case Back with Shiva

1873, after original of 18th century (?)
Plaster cast of original ivory carving
State: Reproduction

3 15/16 in. x 2 13/16 in. (10 cm x 7.2 cm)

Bryn Mawr College
Accession Number: 1873.361
Acquisition Date: 1908
Geography: Asia, India
Classification: Fine and Visual Arts; Sculptures; Fictile Ivories
Culture/Nationality: Hindu
Collection: Fictile Ivories
Description: Cast of a card case back with Shiva (?) with the Body of a Deer and Bust of a Woman after the original formerly in the private collection of Miss Barwell. Description: "2. A female Indian divinity, with the body of a deer and the breast and head of female with a quadruple tiara. She holds in one hand a vase in front of a tree growing out of a larger flower-pot, surrounded by branches with leaves and roses. Above, a juggler playing a kind of flageolet to a cobra with its head erect." (Westwood p. 330-331)

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  • casts - Sculptural works or reproductions made by casting. In industrial and building trade contexts, prefer "castings."
  • Casts
  • figurative art - Art that portrays forms recognizably derived from objective sources, in however altered or distorted form. Includes but not limited to representations of the human figure.
  • Plaster casts
  • representation - A manner of expression by the artist in which the subject matter is presented so that the observer is reminded of actual visible forms. However, the subject represented may or may not exist in the visible world. For example, representations may include presentations of subject matter that are invisible to the eye, such as emotions or imaginary events, as if they are visible.

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  • J. O. Westwood, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Fictile Ivories in the South Kensington Museum G. E. Eyre and W. Spottiswoods. London, England, 1876
    Page Number: 330-331, no. 942

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