Lakshmi, Consort of Vishnu
CultureCambodian
Datelate 12th century
MediumBronze
DimensionsOverall: 9 1/4 × 3 × 3 1/4 inches (23.5 × 7.62 × 8.26 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number39-9
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Exhibition HistoryBuddhist Art, Detroit Institute of Arts, October 1942, no. 34 as Laksmi (?).
Ancient Cambodian Sculpture, Asia House Gallery, New York, October 9-December 7, 1969, no. 38 as Lakshmi?.
With Paul Mallon, New York and Paris, by 1939;
Purchased from Mallon by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1939
Simonetta DeVries, “Recent Oriental Museum Acquisitions,” in Parnassus 12, no. 2 (February 1940): 48.
Sherman E. Lee, Buddhist Art, exh. cat. (Detroit: Detroit Institute of Arts, 1942), 26.
Sherman E. Lee, Ancient Cambodian Sculpture, exh. cat. (New York: Asia House Gallery, 1969), 76, 108, (repro.).
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