EditorialToy Cart with Grimacing Potbellied Dwarf (Yaksha). India; West Bengal, Chandraketugarh. Date: 100 BC-1 BC. Dimensions: 14.5 x 9.3 x 5.4 cm (5.7 x 3.7 x 2.1 in.). Terracotta with red slip. Origin: West Bengal.
EditorialToy Cart with Grimacing Potbellied Dwarf (Yaksha). India; West Bengal, Chandraketugarh. Date: 100 BC-1 BC. Dimensions: 14.5 x 9.3 x 5.4 cm (5.7 x 3.7 x 2.1 in.). Terracotta with red slip. Origin: West Bengal.
EditorialLeaf from a Jain Manuscript: The Story of Kalakacharya of Devachandra: Text (recto); Leaf from a Jain Manuscript: The Story of Kalakacharya of Devachandra: Brahmanshanti Yaksha (verso), 1279. Devachandra (Indian). Opaque watercolor and ink on palm leaf...
EditorialLeaf from a Jain Manuscript: The Story of Kalakacharya of Devachandra: Brahmanshanti Yaksha (verso), 1279. Devachandra (Indian). Opaque watercolor and ink on palm leaf; Manuscript 4; overall: 5.1 x 34.8 cm (2 x 13 11/16 in.).
EditorialHead of a Yaksha, c. 125 BC. Northern India, Uttar Pradesh, Mathura, Shunga Period (c. 187-78 BC). Mottled red sandstone; overall: 48.2 x 40 x 35.6 cm (19 x 15 3/4 x 14 in.).
EditorialToy Cart with Grimacing Potbellied Dwarf (Yaksha). India; West Bengal, Chandraketugarh. Date: 100 BC-1 BC. Dimensions: 14.5 x 9.3 x 5.4 cm (5.7 x 3.7 x 2.1 in.). Terracotta with red slip. Origin: West Bengal.
EditorialToy Cart with Grimacing Potbellied Dwarf (Yaksha). India; West Bengal, Chandraketugarh. Date: 100 BC-1 BC. Dimensions: 14.5 x 9.3 x 5.4 cm (5.7 x 3.7 x 2.1 in.). Terracotta with red slip. Origin: West Bengal.
EditorialYaksha, possibly Kubera, pre-Angkor period, late 6th?early 7th century, Southern Cambodia or Vietnam, Sandstone, H. 13 3/4 in. (34.9 cm); W. 14 in. (35.5 cm); D. 6 in. (15.2 cm), Sculpture, Spirits?some protective, many malevolent?have always populated...
EditorialSphere with Scenes of Rites at the Shrine of a Yaksha (Male Nature Spirit), Mauryan period, ca. 3rd century B.C., India, Stone, H. 1/16 in. (0.1 cm); Diam. 1 3/16 in. (3 cm), Sculpture.
EditorialSix-Armed Mahakala, early 18th century, Tibet, Distemper on cloth, 83 3/ 8 x 57 3/4 in. (211.8 x 146.7 cm), Paintings, The ferocious aspect of the bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara, Mahakala is shown in a flaming aureole, his six hands holding his horrific r...