Conservation (Assessment Only)
CON.2016.3574 | Assessment Only
Event Date 3/11/2016
Author: Rachel Howie

Description (CMS Description)
Clay lower half of body.
Event Date 7/12/2016
Author: maa

Description (CMS Description)
Clay lower-half of body for core of statuette used in brass casting process.
Event Date 10/2/2016
Author: maa

Description (Display)
'Another India: Explorations and Expressions of Indigenous South Asia' 07/03/2017 - 22/04/2018 MAA exhibition label text reads:

The statue & the core

These artefacts produced by the studio of Rajendra Baghel in Kondagaon were collected by John Doubleday, an English sculptor who spent several months on a residency with Baghel in 2011. Doubleday and Baghel shared techniques and ideas, and produced a number of collaborative works now in the collection of MAA.

1. Cores for a sculpture

Every gadwakam sculpture is made by modelling a figure in
wax around an earth core and casing it in clay, which is
then baked in the fire. The wax melts away or is ‘lost’ (giving the technique the name ‘lost wax’) and molten metal poured in to take its place. The core is made of several ingredients including river mud, rice chaff to help bind it together and very fine soil from ant hills.

Workshop of Rajendra Baghel
Kondagaon, Chhattisgarh
Collected by John Doubleday
2015.9.1-3
Event Date 22/3/2017
Author: remke Velden

Exhibition (Li Ka Shing Gallery)
EXH.2017.2 | Another India: Explorations and Expressions of Indigenous South Asia
Event Date 8/3/2017
Author: Remke Velden

Context (Other)
The object entered the museum on 20 February 2015.
Event Date 16/4/2018
Author: Remke Velden

Context (Display)
The metal mount made for the display of the object in the 'Another India' exhibition 8/3/2017-22/4/2018 has been bagged and stored with the object in the box.
Event Date 24/4/2018
Author: Remke Velden