Ganesha Artist: Unknown

ca. 12th century

Asian Art

Not on view
Medium

White marble

Dimensions

9 3/4 × 7 × 2 1/4 in. (24.765 × 17.78 × 5.715 cm)

Credit Line

Gift of Lindsay Harper Makepeace in honor of LeRoy McKim Makepeace, B.A. 1937

Accession Number

2002.31.3

Geography

India

Culture

Indian

Period

possibly Solanki dynasty (ca. 950–ca. 1250)

Classification

Sculpture

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Provenance
Acquired by Leroy McKim Makepeace (1915–1990), in Peshawar, northern Pakistan, 1961 or 1962 [Note 1]; by inheritance, to his wife, Lindsay Harper Makepeace (1926–2015), Washington DC; given to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 2002

Note 1: LeRoy Makepeace was a diplomat, stationed in Pakistan and India in the late 1960s and early 1970s. He retired in 1973.
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States

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