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A Votive Tablet depicting Cintamanicakra -Lokeshvara

A Votive Tablet depicting Cintamanicakra -Lokeshvara

CultureIndian
Date9th century C.E.
MediumRed terracotta
DimensionsOverall: 3 x 2 1/2 inches (7.62 x 6.35 cm)
Credit LineGift of Heeramaneck Galleries
Object number34-146
On View
Not on view
Exhibition History

6000 Years:  Art in Clay, The Los Angeles County Fair, Pomona California, September 12-September 28, 1952, no. 37 as Plaque, Four-Armed Siva, Seated.

Provenance

With Heeramaneck Galleries, New York, by 1934;

Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1934.

Published References

The Los Angeles County Fair Association, 6000 Years:  Art in Clay, exh.cat. (Pomona, California: B –B Press, Inc., 1952), unpaginated.

Nandana Chutiwongs, “An Aspect of the Boddhisattva Avalokitesvara in ancient Indonesia,” in Ancient Indonesian Sculpture, ed. Marijke J. Klokke and Pauline Lunsingh Scheurleer (Leiden: KITLV Press, 1994), 101-102, pl. 17, (repro.).

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