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"title": "Collecting Paradise: Buddhist Art of Kashmir and Its Legacies",
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"did_you_know": "Traces of turquoise paint remain on their bodies, suggesting the presence of fabric.",
"description": "These elegant female figures would have originally been in a portable, wooden shrine with a central ivory depicting the Buddha. One holds a chaur\u012b, or flywhisk, a frequent attribute of attendants, while the one originally on the left holds a lotus. Both display a graceful contraposto (tribhanga). Their rich jewelry contrasts successfully with the softness of their flesh.",
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"citation": "Lee, Sherman E. \"The Year in Review for 1972.\" The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 60, no. 3 (March 1973): 63\u2013115.",
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"citation": "Czuma, Stanislaw. \"A Unique Addition to the School of Kashmiri Ivories.\" The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 75, no. 8 (1988): 298-319.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: fig. 5, p. 302; fig. 8a, p. 304; fig. 8b, p. 305",
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"citation": "Benay, Erin E. Italy by Way of India: Translating Art and Devotion in the Early Modern World. Turnhout: Harvey Miller Publishers, 2021.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: pp. 79\u201380, figs. 68 and 69",
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