Bautze-Picron, Claudine
The Art of Eastern India in the Collection of the Museum für indische Kunst, Berlin: Stone & Terracotta Sculptures
Monographien zur indischen Archäologie, Kunst und Philologie, Volume Band 12
The catalogue presents the stone sculptures and the terracottas from Eastern India which are in the possession of the Museum für Indische Kunst, Berlin. The collection is old and was assembled at a time, in the 19th and early 20th c., when the only other large Western institutions to collect art from Eastern India were the British Museum and the Victoria & Albert Museum, and in importance, it is to be placed next to the collection of the British Museum. It illustrates specific aspects of the art of eastern India, which are not so commonly collected like votive caitya.s or votive slabs, which were found at Bodh Gayā and are usually disregarded.
