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Carved Brackets
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About this work
Composite creatures with the body of a lion, tusks and trunk of an elephant, and horns of an antelope are standard elements of medieval Indian architecture and furniture. Traces of pigment indicate that these ivory furniture facings were brightly painted.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineCarved Brackets, 1600s. South India, probably Madurai. Ivory with traces of pigment; overall: 10.2 cm (4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Edgar A. Hahn, 1972.282
