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Throne Leg

CultureIndian
Date16th-17th century
MediumIvory
DimensionsOverall: 12 inches (30.48 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number64-1
On View
On view
Gallery Location
  • 224
Exhibition History
No known exhibition history at this time.
Gallery Label
This carving once decorated the throne of Hindu kings. It depicts a rider on a rearing horse, with animal and human figures clustered below.
Provenance

With J.J. Klejman, New York, by 1963;

Purchased from J.J. Klejman by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO 1964.

Published References

Archives of the Chinese Art Society, 19 (1965): 83, fig.29, (repro.).

The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, “Checklist of Acquisitions 1962-1966,” The Nelson Gallery & Atkins Bulletin, 4, no. 8 (1967): 46-47, (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), 387, (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), 272, (repro.).

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