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Attendant Figures from a Temple Frieze
Attendant Figures from a Temple Frieze

Attendant Figures from a Temple Frieze

CultureIndian
Date12th-13th century
MediumDark brown sandstone (quartzose arenite)
DimensionsOverall: 26 1/2 x 24 1/2 x 11 inches (67.31 x 62.23 x 27.94 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number32-163
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Exhibition History

Asia House Gallery, New York.  The Art of India: Stone Sculpture, Asia House Gallery, New York, September 25–November 18, 1962, no. 43 as Relief with Male and Female Attendants.

Provenance

With Paul Mallon (1884-1975), Paris, by June 16, 1931 [1];

Purchased from Mallon by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1932.

NOTES:

[1] Letter from Paul Mallon to Langdon Warner, Nelson-Atkins advisor on Asian art, June 16, 1931, Harvard Pusey Library, Langdon Warner Papers, box 7, folder 6, copy in Nelson-Atkins curatorial files.

Published References

The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, The William Rockhill Nelson Collection, 2nd ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1941), 142, (repro.).

Aschwin Lippe, The Art of India: Stone Sculpture, exh. cat. (New York: Asia Society, 1962), 64.

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