Stele with Seated Deity Artist: Unknown

Asian Art

By appointment, Wurtele Study Center
Medium

Black stone with traces of polychrome

Dimensions

6 1/8 × 4 3/8 × 2 1/8 in. (15.6 × 11.1 × 5.4 cm)

Credit Line

Gift of the Rubin-Ladd Foundation under the bequest of Ester R. Portnow

Accession Number

2017.54.12

Geography

Tibet, China

Culture

Tibetan

Classification

Sculpture

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Provenance
Private collection, Germany, 1980s or 1990s [see note 1]. With Kapoor Galleries, Inc., New York, by 2002; sold to the Rubin-Ladd Foundation, Georgetown, Conn., and New York, September 2002 (R-L inv. no. I0203 17); given to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 2016

Note 1: According to information provided by the donor at the time of acquisition (copy in accession file)

This work appears on our "Antiquities and Archaeological Material with Provenance Documentation Gaps" page.
Bibliography
  • "Acquisitions July 1, 2016–June 30, 2017," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (December 1, 2017), 21
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States

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