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Base of a Sculpture of Surya
Base of a Sculpture of Surya

Base of a Sculpture of Surya

CultureIndian
Date6th-7th century C.E.
MediumRed sandstone
DimensionsOverall: 33 1/2 × 28 1/4 × 8 7/8 inches (85.09 × 71.76 × 22.54 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number48-19
On View
On view
Collections
Exhibition History
No known exhibition history at this time.
Gallery Label
The sun god Surya was driven daily across the sky in a chariot drawn by seven horses. These are shown here, one in the center facing forward, and three at each side. The driver of the chariot Aruna, the dawn, is shown seated in a niche above the central horse. In this fragmentary sculpture, only the knees of Surya remain.
Provenance

With C. T. Loo & Co., New York, stock no. NLP-7/1902, by September 1947-1948 [1];

Purchased from C. T. Loo & Co. by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1948.

NOTES:

[1] C. T. Loo/Frank Caro archive, Musée Guimet, Paris, copy of stock card in Nelson-Atkins curatorial files.



Published References

The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, The William Rockhill Nelson Collection, 3rd ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1949), 181, (repro.).

Ross E. Taggart, ed., Handbook of the Collections in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 4th ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1959), 222, (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), 119, (repro.).

V. P. Dwivedi, “Mathura Art in the Museums of United States America,” Journal of Indian Museums 29 (1973): 28, fig. 10, (repro.).

Roger Ward and Patricia J. Fidler, eds., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection (New York: Hudson Hills Press, in association with Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1993), 378, (repro.).

Deborah Emont Scott, ed., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection, 7th ed. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2008), 261, (repro.).

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