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The Goddess Chakreshvari

CultureIndian
Date11th century
MediumSandstone
DimensionsOverall: 31 3/4 × 20 1/4 × 9 inches (80.65 × 51.44 × 22.86 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number60-82
On View
On view
Gallery Location
  • 227
Exhibition History

No exhibition history known at this time.

Gallery Label
This powerful looking goddess, Chakreshvari, is associated with the peaceful Jain tradition. She was an attendant to Rishabhanatha (or Adinath), the legendary first religious leader (or Jina) of the Jain tradition. As a guardian, she bears many weapons, including the round disk called a chakra, from which her name is derived. Her mount is the man-bird, Garuda. The chakra and the Garuda-mount are also important attributes of the Hindu god Vishnu.
Provenance

Robert Hanley Willoughby (1927–2009), Pacific Palisades, CA, by 1960 [1];

Purchased from Willoughby, through Louis Pappas, San Francisco, by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1960.

[1] Laurence Sickman, through an introduction by the dealer Louis Pappas, San Francisco, met with Willoughby at his home and first saw the sculpture installed in his garden in August 1960. Louis Pappas later helped negotiate the sale in November 1960. See NAMA curatorial files for dealer and collector correspondence.

Published References

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), 380, (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), 268, fig. 34, (repro.).

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