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Shiva

CultureIndian
Date12th century
MediumBronze
DimensionsOverall: 16 inches (40.64 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number34-8
On View
On view
Gallery Location
  • 228
Exhibition History
No additional exhibition history known at this time.
Provenance

With C. T. Loo & Co., Paris, no. J9, by July 8, 1933-1934 [1];

Purchased from C. T. Loo & Co. by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1934.

NOTES:

[1] Nelson-Atkins Archives, RG80-05 William Rockhill Nelson Trust Records, box 9, folder 39. This was one of a large group of objects sent by Loo from Paris for the Nelson-Atkins' opening exhibition in December 1933. It was acquired by the museum after the close of the exhibition.

Published References

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), 137, (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), 385, (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), 269, fig. 39, (repro.).

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