Description (Labels & Markings)
Handwritten paper label attached to the object with string reads: 'Shri Krishna when a boy with a ball of butter from his Mother'.
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Author: ashleigh griffin

Context (Field collection)
Collected: Sanders, C.G [donor]
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Author: ashleigh griffin

Description (Labels & Markings)
Small paper label attached to 1927.1850 B reads in handwritten black ink [same hand as label attached to A]:
'Shri Krishna / when a boy / holding / butter / from his / Mother.'
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Author: ashleigh griffin

Context (Related Documents)
Card Catalogue reads: Two lacquered brass figures of Shri Krishna. A) standing playing the basula (pipe). B) as a boy, stealing butter from his mother
Event Date 1927
Author: ashleigh griffin

Description (Physical description)
Copper alloy, ?brass, figure of Bala Krishna, stealing the butter ball. He is depicted crawling with his legs and p. left hand on the ground and the p. right hand raised holding onto a ball of butter. He is decorated with lacquer on his hands, around his neck and highlighting his lips and the symbol of Vishnu on his forehead, which consists of a 'U' shape with a dot in the centre.
Event Date 26/9/2018
Author: ashleigh griffin