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Indian, Karnataka Tamil Nadu

Lovers in a Pavillion, 1600s

Description

Maker

Unknown

Culture

Indian

Title

Lovers in a Pavillion

Year

1600s

Medium

Carved ivory panel

Materials/Techniques

Materials

ivory

Techniques

carving

Dimensions

17.8 x 13.7 x 0.8 cm (7 x 5 3/8 x 5/16 inches) DDG July 2007

Place

Karnataka; Tamil Nadu

Type

Ivory

Credit

Helen M. Danforth Acquisition Fund

Object Number

82.038

Exhibition History

Indian Art for the RISD Collection

August 23, 1985 - March 9, 1986

Ivory was carved throughout many regions of India, where in the 17th century elephants still roamed wild in many of the jungles. This sensitive evocation of two lovers in an open pavilion orginally formed part of a door containing at least three other similar panels. Such imagery is common in both religious and secular contexts in India.

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