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Art of Greater India, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California, March 1-April 16, 1950, no. 135 as Buddhist Shrine.
The Arts of the T’ang Dynasty: A Loan Exhibition Organized by the Los Angeles County Museum from Collections in America, the Orient, and Europe, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, January 8-February 17, 1957, no. 55 as Buddhist Shrine.
Danzo-Buddhist Images Carved in Aromatic Woods, Nara National Museum, Nara, Japan, April 27-June 2, 1991, no. 5 as Mahavairocana and Attendants, Portable Shrine.
La Sérinde, Terre du Bouddha: Dix Siecles d'Art sur la Route de la Soie, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, October 24, 1995-February 19, 1996; Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, April 20-July 7, 1996, no. 279 as Mandala de Vairocana et des Huit Bodhhisattvas.
Collecting Paradise: Buddhist Art of Kashmir and its Legacies, Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Chicago, January 13-April 19, 2015; Rubin Museum of Art, New York, May 22-October 19, 2015, as no. 1.1 as Traveling Shrine, Vairocana with bodhisattvas.
Probably Chinese Central Asia, Xinjiang province, Khotan or Kucha;
Possibly Kashmir, India;
Stella Kramrisch (1896-1993), Calcutta, by 1931;
With Imre Schwaiger (1868-1940), London and New Delhi, by 1940;
By descent to Ernest Schwaiger (1902-1976), London, 1940-1944;
Purchased from Ernest Schwaiger by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1944.
Dagny Carter, Four Thousand Years of China’s Art (New York: The Ronald Press Company, 1948), 112, (repro.).
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Art of Greater India: 3000 B.C.-2800 A.D., edited by Henry Trubner, exh. cat. (Los Angeles, CA: Los Angeles County Museum, 1950), 80, plate 135, (repro.).
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Arts of the T’ang Dynasty: a Loan Exhibition Organized by the Los Angeles County Museum from Collections in America, the Orient, and Europe, exh. cat. (Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1957), 50, fig. 55, (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), 226, (repro.).
Phyllis Granoff, “A Portable Buddhist Shrine from Central Asia,” in Archives of Asian Art 22 (1968-69): 81-95, fig. 1, fig. 15, (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. 1, Art of the Occident, 5th ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1973), 129, (repro.).
Pratapaditya Pal, Bronzes of Kashmir (New York: Hacker Art Books, 1975), 248-49, (repro.).
William Watson, Art of Dynastic China, translation of L’Art de l’Ancienne Chine (New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1981), 486, fig. 424, (repro.).
Sasaki Gōzō, “Vaisravana and a Portable Shrine for Buddha with his Attendants,” in “ Special Edition: Kukai and the Art of Esoteric Buddhism,” Kobijutsu, no. 67 (July 1983): 51, fig. 4, (repro.).
Nara National Museum, Danzo: The Tradition of Sandalwood Imagery in Japanese Sculpture, exh. cat. (Nara, Japan: Nara National Museum, 1991), 20-21, 209, (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), 309, (repro.).
Takeuchi Yoshinori, ed., Buddhist Spirituality: Indian, Southeast Asian, Tibetan, and Early Chinese (New York: The Crossroad Publishing Company, 1993), 249, fig. 18, (repro.).
Marie-France Cocheteux and Agnes Takahashi, Serinde, Terre de Bouddha: Dix siecles d’art sur la Route de la Soie, exh. cat. (Paris: Reunion des Musees Nationaux, 1995), 395-96, (repro.).
Diana Pyle Rowan, “Portable Buddhist Shrines of the Tang Period” (PhD diss., Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, 1997), 103-42, 492-504, figs. 2.1a-2.1m, (repro.).
Pratapaditya Pal, “Prologemena to the Study of a Portable Buddhist Shrine,” in Bulletin of the Asia Institute, new series 18 (2004): 8-9, fig. 6, plate 2, (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), 332, fig. 152, (repro.).
Robert Linrothe, Collecting Paradise: Buddhist Art of Kashmir and its Legacies, exh. cat. (New York: Rubin Museum of Art, 2014), 31-36, fig. 1.1, fig. 1.2, fig. 1.4, (repro.).
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art and Kimberly Masteller, Masterworks from India and Southeast Asia: the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (Kanas City, Missouri: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in association with University of Washington Press, 2016), 10, fig. 3, 44-47, (repro.).
