Krishna

16th century

7 cm 17.8 cm 4.4 cm

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The youthful Krishna plays his flute, beguiling the milkmaids of Brindavan, his hometown. Radha, his favorite, is represented in a companion sculpture (F.173). Both sculptures would have been dressed in clothing and jewelry as part of their worship, probably in a domestic shrine.

Sculpture

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Rudolph Antiquities/Arnold Lieberman, New York [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; John and Berthe Ford, Baltimore, April 1974, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 2021, by gift.
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