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Panel of a Portable Buddhist Shrine with Dancer and Musician Celebrants

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Beige-colored carved panel featuring three figures. A man on the left holds a rectangular frame with both hands. He has short dark hair and wears a loincloth. A dancing woman in the center, with her right leg bent behind her and her left foot on the ground, holds the frame with her right hand. She wears a short skirt with horizontal lines. A man on the right, with medium-length hair, holds the frame with his right hand and a cylindrical object with his left hand. He wears a loincloth. The panel has a flat base and a plain gray background.

Artwork details

Date:
8th century
Medium:
Ivory with traces of color
Culture:
India (Jammu and Kashmir, ancient kingdom of Kashmir)
Dimensions:
600 × 448 px
Museum record:
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