Strut with Bhairava

ca. 1700

45.7 cm 72.4 cm 17.8 cm

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This wood carving was once used as a strut to support the overhanging eave of a structure. Such struts with figures, usually of deities, are a characteristic feature of the wood-and-brick architecture in the Kathmandu Valley and beyond. The struts are usually brightly polychro...

Sculpture

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19863
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sculpture
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Mark Shatin, Los Angeles [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; John and Berthe Ford, Baltimore, May 1970, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 2021, by gift.
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CC0
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en
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7
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Newar
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