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Pair of Earrings with Vishnu Riding Garuda
The collection record classifies this work as jewelry. It is dated 1600s or 1700s. The museum does not specify a culture or place.
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- Museum title
- Pair of Earrings with Vishnu Riding Garuda
- Date
- 1600s or 1700s
- Culture / origin
- Not specified by the museum
- Materials and technique
- Gold set with precious and semiprecious stones
- Dimensions
- Not specified by the museum
- Artist / maker
- Not specified by the museum
- Museum
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Accession number
- 1915.342
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The following description is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art’s original English record.
These earrings were made to hang on large bronze sculptures of deities worshipped in Nepalese temples. Nepalese craftsmen excelled at the detailed encrustation of jewels to depict complex figural imagery. They shaped gold wires into a framework, then inserted polished stones into the spaces, held in place with an adhesive. Four-armed Vishnu is made of sapphires; his mount the man-eagle appears to be made of carnelian and spinel with wings of turquoise.
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The Cleveland Museum of Art · Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Wade · CC0
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