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A Male Figure, possibly a Bodhisattva or Devata, fresco fragment from a Buddhist Wall Painting
A Male Figure, possibly a Bodhisattva or Devata, fresco fragment from a Buddhist Wall Painting

A Male Figure, possibly a Bodhisattva or Devata, fresco fragment from a Buddhist Wall Painting

Primary TitleFragment of a Buddhist Wall Painting
CultureCentral Asian
Date8th century C.E.
MediumInk and mineral pigments on clay
DimensionsOverall: 17 1/2 × 13 3/4 inches (44.45 × 34.93 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number43-17
On View
On view
Collections
DescriptionFresco of a haloed male figure, possibly a bodhisattva or attendant devata, whith hands raised in anjali mudra. This rectangular fragment depicts the head and upper torso if the figure. The color palette consists of white and green with light and dark brown.Exhibition History
No known exhibition history at this time.
Provenance

With Yamanaka and Company, New York, New York, by 1943;

U.S. Office of Alien Property Custodian, New York, by 1943 [1];

Purchased from U.S. Office of Alien Property Custodian by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1943.

NOTES:

[1] This object was sequestered as alien property by the U.S. Office of Alien Property Custodian, New York.

Published References

Yamanaka and Company, Collection of Chinese and Other Far Eastern Art (New York: John B. Watkins Company, 1943), fig. 390, unpaginated, (repro.).

Ross E. Taggart and George L. McKenna, eds., Handbook of the Collections in The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Kansas City, Missouri, vol. 2, Art of the Orient, 5th ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1973), 129, (repro.).

Michael Browning, “Beyond the Flame Mountains,” The Kansas City Star, Star Magazine (February 26, 1989), (repro.).

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