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Chintamani-Lokeshvara

CultureNepalese
Dateca. 1600
MediumGilt copper with semiprecious stone inlay
DimensionsOverall: 9 15/16 × 3 3/4 × 3 inches (25.24 × 9.53 × 7.62 cm)
Credit LineGift of Karen Ann Bunting and Mr. and Mrs. O. G. Bunting
Object numberF86-44/1
On View
Not on view
Exhibition History

A Bountiful Decade: Selected Acquisitions, 1977-1987, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, October 14-December 6, 1987, no. 42.

Provenance

Karen Dean Bunting (née Bitler, 1912-1981), Kansas City, by 1975;

By descent to Karen Ann Bunting (1939-1999), Chilmark, MA, and Olen George Bunting (b.1942), Stillwell, KS, 1981-1986;

Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1986.

Published References

Roger Ward, ed., A Bountiful Decade: Selected Acquisitions, 1977-1987, exh. cat. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1987), 102-103, (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), 394, (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), 277, fig. 2, (repro.).

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