Photo of collection object Bracket with Lotus Leaf Pattern
Bracket with Lotus Leaf Pattern, Carved wood and polychrome, 73 in. (185.4 cm) mount: 73 × 5 in. (185.4 × 12.7 cm). 14.732.8. Creative Commons-BY.

Bracket with Lotus Leaf Pattern

Maker Unknown

Asian Art

These ornamental brackets, exemplary of eighteenth-century Guijarati wood carving, are from a rest house associated with a Jain temple. Pilgrims who came to worship in the temple used the rest house for social activities.

The Brooklyn Museum of Art's first Curator of Ethnology, Stewart Culin (1858–1929), purchased the rest house while traveling with Lockwood de Forest (1850–1932) of the Metropolitan Museum of Art on a Museum expedition to India in 1913–14. De Forest had established the Ahmedabad Wood Carving Company with Maganbhai Hutheesing in 1881 in response to the popularity of orientalist ornament in the Arts and Crafts Movement.

Maker/Artist
Maker Unknown
Classification
Architectural Element
Formatted Medium
Carved wood and polychrome
Locations
Place made: Gujarat, India
Dimensions
73 in. (185.4 cm) mount: 73 × 5 in. (185.4 × 12.7 cm)
Departments
Asian Art
Accession Number
14.732.8
Rights Statement
Creative Commons-BY
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