Kali
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- Catalogue identifier
- kali-0098
- Alternate titles and import identifiers
- KALI-0098; 2013.3
- Author or attribution
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Record type
- Museum record
- Language
- English
- Date / edition
- n.d.
- Source / repository
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Access
- Open access
- Subjects
- Kali Library Research Catalogue; Art, Iconography, and Epigraphic Studies
Description and curator notes
The museum describes a late nineteenth-century Kali print whose Bengali wording also invokes commercial products. The record therefore supports research on the contact between devotional imagery and advertising, rather than a simple division between sacred pictures and the marketplace. Complete object metadata accompanies the interpretive text. It is particularly useful for the library’s material on popular visual religion in colonial Bengal.
KALI-0098 — Kali Library Research Catalogue.
Access and reliability assessments below are supplied by the curator's 4–5 November 2026 research release, not a new independent verification.
Author / attribution: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Publication: The Metropolitan Museum of Art · n.d.
Artwork: ca. 1885–95; Kolkata. Accession: 2013.3.
Format / language: Museum catalog record · English
Artwork date: ca. 1885–95 (not the publication date of this catalog record)
Identifier: 2013.3
Kali relevance: Complete written catalog documentation of a Kali-related artwork.
Context: Kolkata
Subjects: Art, Iconography, and Epigraphic Studies
Evidence / reliability: Institutional or scholarly secondary source
Access / rights: Complete text checked 2026-11-05. Curatorial text is free to read; image rights vary by object. Consult the record’s specific image/reuse statement.
Source and alternate access links:
Read complete text: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/78257
Source access
Read or locate the original source at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Rights and reading conditions
Complete text checked 2026-11-05. Curatorial text is free to read; image rights vary by object. Consult the record’s specific image/reuse statement. This library links to the source and does not reproduce its full text.
Citation
The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Kali. The Metropolitan Museum of Art · n.d..
This page supplies catalogue metadata and links. It does not reproduce the underlying source text. Historical, religious, healing and interpretive claims belong to the cited sources, not to an independent verification by this catalogue.