CBSE Class 11 Painting And Sculpture The Art Of Indus Valley Bull Seal Worksheet

Art of Indus Valley/ Study and appreciation of Seal & Painted Earthenwares

BULL SEAL

Medium: Stone
Technique: Carving
Size: 2.5 x 2.5 x 1.4 cm
Location: Mohenjo-daro
Circa: 2500 B.C.

Archaeologists have discovered thousands of seals, usually made of *steatite with beautiful figures of animals, such as unicorn bull, rhinoceros, tiger, elephant, bison, goat, buffalo, etc. The realistic rendering of these animals in various moods is remarkable. The purpose of producing seals was mainly commercial. It appears that the seals were also used as amulets, carried on the persons of their owners, perhaps as modern-day identity cards. The standard Harappan seal was a square plaque 2×2 square inches, usually made from the soft river stone, steatite.

Earthenwares (Jar)

Subject: Painted Earthen Jar
Medium: Clay
Location: Mohenjo-Daro
Technique: Terra-cotta

Painted Earthen Jar found in Mohenjo-Daro, this jar is made on a potter’s wheel with clay. The shape was manipulated by the pressure of the crafty fingers of the potter. After baking the clay model, it was painted with black colour. High polishing was done as a finishing touch. The motifs are of vegetables and geometric forms. Designs are simple but with a tendency towards abstraction. Polychrome pottery is rare and mainly comprises small vases decorated with geometric patterns in red, black, and green, rarely white and yellow.

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