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Votive terracotta from Molela, Rajasthan. Via Expo Adivasi Art 

Kalighat Kali (Brass Sculpture)

Sopheap Pich (b. 1971, Cambodia), Buddha (from ‘1979′ series) 2009, Rattan, wire, dye. Via Queensland Art Gallery

To Reflect an Intimate Part of The Red, Anish Kapoor, 1981. Via Indian Contemporary Art.

Kapoor’s pigment pieces were influenced by familar Indian sights: roadside shrines, temple domes and the piles of pigment sold outside places of worship for use in rituals.  In the artist’s words, “With the early powder pieces, one of the things I was trying to do was to arrive at something which was as if unmade, as if self-manifested, as if there by its own volition…The objects seem to be coming out of the ground or the wall, the powder defining a surface, implying that there is something below the surface…”

‘Stained’, enamel on wood. By Pakistani artist Simeen Farhat. Via Xerxes Art.

Artist and academic Simeen Farhat was born in Karachi, Pakistan in 1968. Her multi-media works use the forms of the Arabic script and allegorical references to Persian and Urdu poetry.

Masnavi in Black, wood sculpture by Pakistani artist Simeen Farhat. Via TheSmartestFish

Photograph of Buddha sculpture by Gonkar Gyatso, taken in the artist’s studio. Via Alegria