The Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara

Former TitleThe Bodhisattva Padmapani

CultureIndonesian

Date9th century C.E.

MediumBronze with brown patina and slight traces of gilding

DimensionsOverall: 5 3/8 × 4 7/8 inches (13.65 × 12.38 cm)

Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust

Object number56-73

On View

Not on view

Collections

South and Southeast Asian Art

Terms

Exhibition History

Art in Asia and the West, San Francisco Museum of Art, October 28-December 1, 1957, no. 12e.

Provenance

With Heeramaneck Galleries, New York, by 1956 [1];

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

NOTES:

[1] According to the Heeramaneck Galleries invoice dated June 23, 1956, NAMA curatorial files.

Published References

San Francisco Museum of Art, Art in Asia and the West, exh. cat. (San Francisco, California: H. S. Crocker Co., Inc., 1957), 32.

Ross E. Taggart, ed., Handbook of the Collections in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 4th ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1959), 241, (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), 150, (repro.).

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