Uma, anonymous, 1400 - 1500

Uma, anonymous, 1400 - 1500

bronze (metal), h 74.0cm × w 23.0cm × d 23.0cm More details

The blue water lily in the figure's right hand shows that this is the goddess Uma (also known as Parvati), wife of the Hindu god Shiva. She is standing in an elegant pose, with her body slightly angled at the hip and neck. In a temple she would have stood to the left of Shiva, her customary position.

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Identification

Title(s)

Uma

Object type

Object number

AK-MAK-188

Description

Beeld van Devi in de gedaante van Uma (Parvati).

Creation

Artist

anonymous

Place

Dating

1400 - 1500

Material and Technique

Material

bronze (metal)

Measurements

height 74.0 cm × width 23.0 cm × depth 23.0 cm

Subject

What

representations ~ goddesses, demi-goddesses, heroines etc. (Hinduism, Buddhism or Jainism)

Acquisition and rights

Credit line

On loan from the Royal Asian Art Society in The Netherlands (gift of C.T. Loo, Parijs, 1938)

Acquisition

loan 1972

Copyright

Provenance

…; donated by C.T. Loo, Paris, to the Vereniging van Vrienden der Aziatische Kunst, 1938;{Note RMA.} from whom on loan to the museum, 1972

Bibliography and list of abbreviations for the provenance (pdf)

Documentation

New studies into Indian and Himalayan sculpture, fig. 199, 201
Oosterse schatten : 4000 jaar Aziatische Kunst [ : 1 1954a], cat.nr. 564
Museum van Aziatische kunst in het Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam : catalogus, H.F.E. Visser, cat.nr. 210
Exposition de sculptures et bronzes anciens de l'Inde, cat.nr. 21, pl. XIV
C.T. Loo en de Vereniging van Vrienden der Aziatische Kunst, Geert-Jan Janse
Jubileumverwervingen, Jan van Campen
P.C.M. Lunsingh Scheurleer, 'De menselijke gestalte in de Aziatische beeldhouwkunst op de tentoonstelling Rijksmuseum aan Zee: Hemelse beelden uit Oost en West', Sculptuur Studies 2008 (2009), p. 12-17.
P.C.M. Lunsingh Scheurleer, 'The Human form in Asian sculpture in the exhibition Rijksmuseum aan Zee: Heavenly sculptures from east and west', Sculptuur Studies 2008 (2009), p. 104-109.
Karel R. van Kooij, 'Sterrenbeelden : Antropomorfe voorstellingen van de naksatras in India en Centraal-Azië', Anna Slaczka, 'Devi aan Zee', Aziatische Kunst 38 (2008), nr. 4, p. 143-149.
Anna Slaczka, 'Devi aan zee', Aziatische Kunst 38/4 (2008), pp. 143-149.
Maandblad voor beeldende kunsten (1940) juli, p. 192.
Sculptures Indiennes de la collection C.T. Loo. Exposition Kunstzaal van Lier, Rokin 126, Amsterdam, du 3 Sept. au 1 Oct. 1938, nr. 5.

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