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Lotus-Headed Fertility Goddess Lajja Gauri - relief, India (Madhya Pradesh) (MET, 2000.284.13)

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India (Madhya Pradesh); Relief; Sculpture, Lajja Gauri with a lotus head, an icon of cosmic feminine procreative energy. For details and variants to this ancient Indic icon, see Carol Radcliffe Bolon (2010), Forms of the Goddess Lajja Gauri in Indian Art, Pennsylvania State University Press. ISBN 978-0-271-04369-2
Date ca. 6th century
Medium Sandstone
Dimensions H. 4 1/16 in. (10.3 cm); W. 4 1/16 in. (10.3 cm)
institution QS:P195,Q160236
Current location
Asian Art
Accession number
2000.284.13
Credit line Samuel Eilenberg Collection, Bequest of Samuel Eilenberg, 1998
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https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/38492

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