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Forehead Pendant with Sun God Surya in a Chariot with Attendants
1600s or 1700s
- Medium
- gold set with jewels and semi-precious stones
- Classification
- Jewelry
- Dimensions
- Overall: 8 x 4.6 cm (3 1/8 x 1 13/16 in.)
- Culture
- Nepal, Kathmandu Valley
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Indian and Southeast Asian Art
- Credit line
- Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Wade
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
This pendant was made to hang on a sculpture of a deity under worship in a Nepalese temple. The image of the Sun God, venerated by both Buddhists and Hindus, is carved in translucent golden stones set into a framework of gold wire.He holds two lotuses with emeralds in the center.
