These elaborately carved wooden brackets originally served as flanking struts at the entrance of a mansion belonging to a wealthy mercantile family. More specifically, they were created for a Hindu merchant community in south India known as the Chettinad.

These elaborately carved wooden brackets originally served as flanking struts at the entrance of a mansion belonging to a wealthy mercantile family. More specifically, they were created for a Hindu merchant community in south India known as the Chettinad.

These elaborately carved wooden brackets originally served as flanking struts at the entrance of a mansion belonging to a wealthy mercantile family. More specifically, they were created for a Hindu merchant community in south India known as the Chettinad.

Painting from India survives from at least the 5th century in the form of magnificent murals on the interior of Buddhist monasteries, and then later in Buddhist and Jain religious manuscripts painting on palm leaves.

This partially gilded stone model of the Mahabodhi Temple was created in the 12th or 13th century in India, probably for pilgrims visiting the temple to take home for their devotions.

Game pieces need a place for storage. This ivory game counter box is elegantly painted with men and animals, suggesting that it was probably ornamented in the western Indian state of Rajasthan. One side shows a procession of men, a horse, and an elephant.

This is a monumental sculpture from southern India, representing a warlike form of the Hindu god Shiva as Virabhadra ("distinguished hero"). In the story associated with this form of Shiva, the god is angered by his father-in-law, Daksha, who performed a great sacrifice and invite

The most common representations of Durga depict the goddess slaying the buffalo demon, or together with Shiva, her husband. However, she is occasionally shown alone on her lion mount, as she is in this wooden sculpture.

This Pala-dynasty stele depicting Jambhala reflects a mixture of Hindu and Buddhist influences. The Buddhist deity Jambhala is associated with Kubera, the Hindu god of wealth.