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Cup with spout
Cup with ibex
Akshobya
Box for paper and documents
Candlestick base
Safavid tile
Commentary on the 40 Traditions
Fragment of Prabhamandala
Ushnishavijaya
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Architectural fragment with Shiva and a Vyala

Anonymous

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The fragment, the wall part of a temple, has two relief figures placed on two parallel offset surfaces: on the prominent part of the fragment an image of Shiva is carved, on the rear part the image of a rampant vyala. The architectural part and the sculptures that decorate the surface are perfectly compatible with the wall decorations of the temples of Khajuraho. Shiva, accompanied by the small bull placed at his feet, rests on a jutting base. The stylistic canons of Khajuraho's sculptures are found in the subtle physique of the divinity and in the harmonious and almost unnatural curve that marks the posture of the body. On the rear wall surface there is the rampant image of a vyala, which, as in the temples of Khajuraho, is depicted with a small female figure under the erect body and a person astride her back. The movement impressed on the three bodies is of great figurative impact.
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Title: Architectural fragment with Shiva and a Vyala

Author: Anonymous

Date: XII sec. d.C.

Technique: beige arenaria

Displayed in: MAO - Museum of Oriental Art

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