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Pillar from a Siva Temple Porch

CultureIndian
Dateearly 7th century C.E.
MediumMarble
DimensionsOverall: 103 × 7 1/2 inches (261.62 × 19.05 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number34-2/1
On View
On view
Gallery Location
  • 227
Exhibition History
No known additional exhibition known at this time.
Provenance

With C. T. Loo & Co., New York, by March 28, 1933-1934 [1];

Purchased from C. T. Loo & Co. by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1934.

NOTES:

[1] C. T. Loo loaned these pillars to the Nelson-Atkins for the museum’s opening exhibition in December 1933. They were shipped to the museum in March 1933. See letter from Marion W. Riepe, C. T. Loo & Co., to Paul Gardner, Director, March 28, 1933, Nelson-Atkins Archives, RG01/01, Director’s Office Records – Gardner, Box 1, Folder 28, copy in Nelson-Atkins curatorial files.

Published References

An Exhibition of the Sculpture of Greater India (New York: C. T. Loo, 1942), 33.


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.).


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