Sleeping Vishnu, anonymous, c. 1100 - c. 1300

Identification

Title(s)

Sleeping Vishnu
Head of Vishnu Reclining

Object type

sculpture

Object number

AK-MAK-224

Description

Fragment (hoofd) van een slapende Visjnoe; het hoofd staat een beetje schuin op de hals.

Creation

Artist

anonymous

Place

Cambodja

Dating

c. 1100 - c. 1300

Material and Technique

Physical features

sandstone

Material

sandstone

Technique

picked

Measurements

height c. 32.8 cm × width c. 20.2 cm × depth 19.4 cm × weight 14.5 kg

Subject

What

Vishnu, protector and preserver of the world

Acquisition and rights

Credit line

On loan from the Royal Asian Art Society in The Netherlands (purchase C.J.P. Baronesse van der Feltz-Lotsy, 1951)

Acquisition

loan 1972

Copyright

Public domain

Provenance

… ; from Bouasse-Lebel to Paul Mallon;{Note RMA.} from whom to Dr P. Rosenberg;{Note RMA.}…; from C.J.P. Baronesse v.d. Feltz-Lotsy, fl. 10,000, with support from the Vereniging Rembrandt, to the Vereniging van Vrienden der Aziatische Kunst, 1951;{Note RMA.} from whom on loan to the museum, 1972

Bibliography and list of abbreviations for the provenance (pdf)

Documentation

Asian art, cat.nr. 33
Asiatic art in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, p. 155, cat.nr. 170
Oosterse schatten : 4000 jaar Aziatische Kunst [ : 1 1954a], cat.nr. 607
Museum van Aziatische kunst in het Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam : catalogus, H.F.E. Visser, cat.nr. 253
Catalogus der tentoonstelling van Aziatische kunst in particuliere en openbare collecties in Nederland, cat.nr. 314
Aziatische kunst, cat.nr. 33
Un chef d'œuvre de la sculpture khmère au Musée d'Art Asiatique d'Amsterdam, G. Cœdes
Aanwinsten : een bronzen varja gevonden in Thailand, Stefan Nies
Jan Fontein, 'De vroege jaren van de vereniging: lezing nieuwjaarsbijeenkomst 2005', Aziatische Kunst 35/2 (2005), pp. 2-20.

Persistent URL

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