Railing Pillar with a Yakshi (Female Nature Divinity), mathura, c. 125–50 CE

Railing Pillar with a Yakshi (Female Nature Divinity)

Archival Details

The Mathura school of sculpture flourished in North India, centered on the city of Mathura, from roughly the 1st century BCE onward. Carved characteristically in local red sandstone, it produced Buddhist, Jain, and Hindu imagery and is noted for its distinct indigenous idiom, developing in parallel with Gandharan sculpture further northwest.

Artwork Details

Artist

Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund

Tradition

Mathura

File

1596 × 2560 px · JPG · 299 KB

Accession no.

1965.250

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