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A Holy Man Meditates (Shrine with Sleeping Ascetic)
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Beneath a gnarled tree, an ascetic sleeps with head on knees before a small, domed shrine. A small cook tends the fires beneath a pot in the foreground, and in the background a disciple gazes upon the ascetic.
Department of Islamic & Later Indian Art
Stuart Cary Welch (by 1999 - 2008 ) by descent; to his estate (2008-2009 ) gift; to Harvard Art Museum.
Notes:
Object was part of long-term loan to Museum in 1999.
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum The Stuart Cary Welch Collection Gift of Edith I. Welch in memory of Stuart Cary Welch
Title: A Holy Man Meditates (Shrine with Sleeping Ascetic)
Description:
Beneath a gnarled tree, an ascetic sleeps with head on knees before a small, domed shrine.
A small cook tends the fires beneath a pot in the foreground, and in the background a disciple gazes upon the ascetic.
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