THREE HEADED SHIVA FROM KASHMIR IN HARVARD UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUM

                                       

THREE HEADED SHIVA  FROM  KASHMIR ( relates to 8th or
9th century ) IN HARVARD UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUM  MASSACHUSETTS , USA

This 8th or 9th century  karkota period( 625-1003 AD)    broken sculpture  of three headed Shiva is from Kashmir. It  is on display inside Harvard University Art Museum (Arthur M. Sackler section )   , Massachusetts, Boston. As per details  it has been acquired in 1990 under  acquisition of Oriental Art number  1990.1. t is on display at Level 2, Room 2590 of the museum.

The Museum details informs as under:

" The rounded forms, well-modeled musculature, and controlled exuberance of this figure characterize the sculptural style that developed in late ninth-century Kashmir, during the reign of the Karkota dynasty (625–1003)."

(Avtar Mota)

PS

Harvard University Art Museums  ...These are actually  three museums namely ;  Fogg Museum , Bush-Reisinger Museum and Arthur M. Sackler Museum.

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