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Creative Commons License
Creative Commons License
Creative Commons License
Krishna with a Butterball
(India, Nepal, and Tibet)
The infant Krishna's fondness for raiding his mother's pantry for butter can be understood metaphorically as a representation of the god's ability to steal the human heart. The sculpture would have been installed in a household shrine in West Bengal.
Provenance
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John and Berthe Ford, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 2009, by gift.
Exhibitions
| 2011-2012 | All Things Round: Galazies, Eyeballs and Karma. American Visionary Art Museum, Baltimore. |
| 2001-2003 | Desire and Devotion: Art from India, Nepal, and Tibet in the John and Berthe Ford Collection. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore; Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara; Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque; Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham; Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong. |
Geographies
India, West Bengal (Place of Origin)
Measurements
H: 9 1/4 × W: 6 7/16 × D: 10 1/16 in. (23.5 × 16.3 × 25.6 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of John and Berthe Ford, 2009
Location in Museum
Not on view
Accession Number
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In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
54.3079