A sandalwood sculpture group: Krishna is engaged in a love game with Radha (?).The sculptures and a metal gazebo are mounted on a wooden stand, three sides of which are decorated with metal cartouches; they are engraved with inscriptions in English and Tamil that read: “Our best wishes to the Volgograd city Council. Presented on behalf of the Madras Corporation in 1967, by Era Sambandham, the city mayor.” Round metal plates depict a sailboat on the waves and silhouettes of a building and a fish.
Sculptural composition on a stand “God Krishna with a lover in the garden house.”
India ,
June 1967
МЗСБ КП 9914/1 П 937
53,5 х 30,7 х 30,6 cm
metal, wood, casting, carving, soldering, notching, engraving, assembly
The composition is mounted on a wooden stand with metal cartouche plates affixed with engraved inscriptions in English and Tamil on three sides: “Our best wishes to the Volgograd City Council. Given on behalf of Madras Corporation in 1967, by Era Sambandham, the city mayor.”
1967, Tamil Nadu, Madras.
See also
Memorial plaque “Grateful France to Stalingrad”
France ,
30.11.1944
Memorial plaque “Grateful France to Stalingrad”
Memorial plaque “Grateful France to Stalingrad” (À Stalingrad hommage de la France). From the record of Ch. de Gaulle [translation]: "Famous and eternal city that made the turn. France salutes it. 30.11.1944."
Present from Charles de Gaulle, the Chairman of the Provisional Government of the French Republic, who visited Stalingrad on 30.11.1944