Horse for Crowned Equestrian Divinity in Anjali Mudra

CultureThai

Date19th century

MediumWood with polychrome and gilding

DimensionsOverall: 29 5/16 × 5 7/8 × 20 1/2 inches (74.45 × 15 × 52 cm)

Credit LineGift of Miss Marion Jessup

Object numberR78-3 A

On View

Not on view

Collections

South and Southeast Asian Art

Terms

Exhibition History

No exhibition history known at this time.

Provenance

Likely Abby Beatrice Prather (née McKean, 1877–1957), New York, Paris, and Kent, CT, by 1918 [1];

Likely inherited from Prather by her niece Miss Marion Jessup (1896–1979), New York, Paris, Kent, CT, 1957 [2];

Her gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1978.

[1] Abby Beatrice Prather, married to Elmer Sidney Prather (1872–1939), applied for a United States passport in 1917 to travel to Korea, Japan, China, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Thailand, and Hawaii to conduct literary research. Prather departed in 1917 and returned to the United States in April 1918. A May 20, 1928, article about Prather published in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle featured a graphic representation of this statue.

[2] After losing both parents during her childhood, Jessup developed a close relationship with her aunt until Prather’s death in 1957. Census records and newspaper accounts from the 1920s onward reported that they lived and often traveled together.

Published References

Helen Herbert Foster, "Quit Words for Rare Jewels," The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (May 20, 1928): 13, (potential graphic representation).

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