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Shiva as Vanquisher of the Three Cities (Shiva Tripuravijaya)
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Copper alloy, Chola period, South India (Tamil Nadu Thanjavur district)
Rights: Public Domain
Asian Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York NY, Purchase Lila Acheson Wallace and The Vincent Astor Foundation Gifts funds from various donors Florence and Herbert Irving Acquisitions Fund for Asian Art The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Foundation and Harris Brisbane Dick Funds Mr. and Mrs. Richard L. Chilton Jr. Gift Oscar L. Tang Fund for Asian Art Fletcher Fund Brooke Russell Astor Bequest Florence and Herbert Irving Acquisitions Fund Eliot and Wilson Nolen Gift and Seymour Fund; Mrs. Stephen V. Harkness Fund Bequests of Bernard M. Baruch and Mary Strong Shattuck Gifts of George D. Pratt and Mrs. Lewis S. Wolff from the Estate of Dorothea Wolff and Rogers Fund by exchange 2018
Title: Shiva as Vanquisher of the Three Cities (Shiva Tripuravijaya)
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Copper alloy, Chola period, South India (Tamil Nadu Thanjavur district).
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