Collection
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Chandraketugarh, West Bengal, India
- Title
- Rattle in the form of a lady playing the drum
- Other titles:
- Woman playing a drum
- Place of origin
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Chandraketugarh →
West Bengal →
India
- Period
- Shunga Period circa 200 - 50 BCE → India
- Year
- 2nd century BCE-1st century BCE
- Media categories
- Sculpture, Ceramic
- Materials used
- terracotta
- Dimensions
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19.0cm
- Signature & date
- Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Purchased 1994
- Accession number
- 591.1994
- Location
- Not on display
- Further information
This figure is from the rich archaeological site of Chandraketugarh in West Bengal where many terracottas have been excavated.
A female holding a hide-covered drum resting on a cloth-draped stand is hollow with a plain back and a base. Like several other pieces from this site, it seems to have been designed as a rattle because the hollow body deliberately contains what sounds like clay pellets.
Jackie Menzies, 'Dancing to the flute - Music and dance in Indian art', AGNSW, 1997. pg. 202.
- Bibliography (2)
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Pratapaditya Pal, Dancing to the flute: music and dance in Indian art 1997, Sydney, 1997, 202 (colour illus), 204. cat.no. 122b See 'Further Information' for text.
Pratapaditya Pal, Indian sculpture: a catalogue of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art collection, Los Angeles, 1986. General reference - comparable examples
- Exhibition history (1)
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Dancing to the flute: music and dance in Indian art, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 12 Jun 1997–24 Aug 1997
