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Krishna Playing a Flute
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Stone, India (Orissa)
Rights: Public Domain
Asian Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York NY, Bequest of Kate Read Blacque in memory of her husband Valentine Alexander Blacque by exchange 1948
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