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Bust of Vishnu
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Terracotta, Gupta period, India (Bengal) or Bangladesh
Rights: Public Domain
Asian Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York NY, Purchase The Randall & Kathryn Smith Foundation Gift and Rogers Fund 2000
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