A Flying Deity
Original Language TitleA Vidyadhara
CultureIndian
Date5th-6th century C.E.
MediumBrass
DimensionsOverall: 3 3/4 × 2 7/8 × 2 inches (9.53 × 7.3 × 5.08 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number54-76
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Exhibition HistoryCollecting Paradise: Buddhist Art of Kashmir and its Legacies, Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, January 10–April 19, 2015; Rubin Museum of Art, New York, May 22–October 19, 2015, no. 1.6 as Winged Celestial.
With Heeramaneck Galleries, New York, by 1954 [1];
Purchased from the Heeramaneck Galleries by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1954.
[1] Heeramaneck Galleries invoice dated October 22, 1954, NAMA curatorial files.
Pratapaditya Pal, “Bronzes of Kashmir: Their Sources and Influences,” Journal of the Royal Society of Arts 121, no. 5207 (October 1973): 742-43, (repro.).
Pratapaditya Pal, Bronzes of Kashmir (New York: Hacker Art Books, 1975), 79, fig. 15, (repro.).
Ulrich von Schroeder, Indo-Tibetan Bronzes (Hong Kong: Visual Dharma Publications, 1981), fig. 13c
Rob Linrothe, Collecting Paradise: Buddhist Art of Kashmir and its Legacies, exh. cat. (New York: Rubin Museum of Art, 2014), 35-36, fig. 1.6, (repro.).
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