Eliza Karaza

Adorned

rapunzel and gothel

south asian women in art

#FishFriday:

Fish-Shaped Box

Probably made in India, Lucknow or Hyderabad, 19th c.

Zinc alloy; cast, engraved, inlaid w/ silver & brass (bidri ware)

L 9 1/4 in (23.5 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 19.135.15a, b

“Although the technique of inlaying metal known as bidri was invented in the Deccan in the 17th century, and Hyderabad remained a center for this type of metalwork into the 1800s, Lucknow, in northeastern India, also became an important center for production of bidri ware in the 18th and 19th centuries.”

4th gen desis + bowie hope y’all enjoy<3!!!

Unknown, God Indra visits imprisoned Sita in the Ravana Palace Garden While the Guardian Demoness Sleep (detail), 1775

Opaque watercolor with gold

Untitled, Imran Qureshi, circa 2010s-2020s

Acrylic and gold leaf on paper 29 ¼ x 21 ½ in. (74.3 x 54.6 cm)

what a beautiful place to die

suraksha (2023) poems [album art by kush]

The seated Buddha. Stucco sculpture from a stupa at the now-destroyed site of Hadda, Afghanistan, once part of the region of Gandhara. Artist unknown; ca. 300 CE (late Kushan period). Now in the Cleveland Museum of Art.

Eliza Karaza

💫✨ earthly power 🌼

Portrait of a Prince with a Hawk | 18th Century Mughal miniature, gum tempera and gold on paper 

dark-skinned south asian women in art <3

[from left to right] 1. shashikant dhotre / 2-3. s. elayaraja / 4. a. ramachandran / 5-9. s. elayaraja

#ThreeForThursday:

Tea Service in the Shape of Quails

Gujarat (formerly Baroda), India, 1920-30

Silver, gilded silver, ivory

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts display

“The British were not India's only patrons of elegant silver.

Native princes - always engaged in dynamic cultural interchanges with their British overlords - also commissioned silver of the highest quality. Such patronage was nowhere more prominent than in western India, where the rulers of the state of Kutch were champions of their silversmiths. These leaders ensured their region's silver became the best known of India's styles through sponsorship at international exhibitions, beginning with London's Great Exhibition of 1851. This stylishly whimsical tea service in the shape of richly feathered quails was produced by Oomersee Mawjee Jr., son of Kutch's most renowned master silversmith, after he shifted to the employ of another western Indian ruler, Maharaja Sayajirao Gaekwad III of Baroda.”

photo study and that awful, awful man that makes me wanna eat wood barks and kick my feet