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Carved Brackets

1600s

South India, probably Madurai

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Medium
Ivory with traces of pigment
Measurements
Overall: 10.2 cm (4 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Edgar A. Hahn 1972.282
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In India ivory has been used to face wooden furniture for more than two thousand years.

Description

Composite creatures with the body of a lion, tusks and trunk of an elephant, and horns of an antelope are standard elements of medieval Indian architecture and furniture. Traces of pigment indicate that these ivory furniture facings were brightly painted.

Carved Brackets

1600s

South India, probably Madurai

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