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Head of a Buddha

CultureCambodian
Date11th century
MediumGray stone
DimensionsOverall: 9 5/8 inches (24.45 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number56-87
On View
On view
Gallery Location
  • 225
Exhibition History

Ancient Cambodian Sculpture, Asia House Gallery, New York, October 9-December 7, 1969, no. 25 as Head of Buddha.

Provenance

With Mathias Komor, New York, by November 1954-1956;

Purchased from Mathias Komor by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1956.

NOTES:

[1] This object was on loan from Komor to the Nelson-Atkins from November 1954 until its purchase in 1956.


Published References

Sherman E. Lee, Ancient Cambodian Sculpture, exh. cat. (New York: The Asia Society, Inc., 1969), 63, 105-06, (repro.).

Laurence Sickman, “Stone Sculpture of India and South-East Asia,” Apollo, 97 (March 1973): 84, fig. 3, (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. 2, Art of the Orient, 5th ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1973), 148, (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), 392, (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), 282, fig. 8, (repro.).

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