The bodhisattva Lokeshvara, anonymous, 1175 - 1250

Identification

Title(s)

The bodhisattva Lokeshvara
Head of the bodhisattva Lokeshvara

Object type

Object number

AK-MAK-226

Description

Fragment (hoofd) van Bodhissatva Lokeshvara met de typische Bayon-glimlach; beeltenis van Boeddha Amithaba voor de hoofdtooi.

Creation

Artist

anonymous

Place

Cambodja

Dating

1175 - 1250

Material and Technique

Material

sandstone

Measurements

height 38.1 cm × width 20.1 cm × depth 21.1 cm × weight 17.1 kg

Acquisition and rights

Credit line

On loan from the Royal Asian Art Society in The Netherlands (purchase École des Arts Cambodgiens, 1931)

Acquisition

loan 1972

Copyright

Public domain

Provenance

…; through the mediation of the École française d'Extrême-Orient purchsed from the École des Arts Cambodgiens, 1931;{Southworth 2013} from whom to the Vereniging van Vrienden der Aziatische Kunst;{Note RMA.} from whom on loan to the museum, 1972

Bibliography and list of abbreviations for the provenance (pdf)

Documentation

The art of Buddhism, Dietrich Seckel, pl. 34
Oosterse schatten : 4000 jaar Aziatische Kunst [ : 1 1954a], cat.nr. 608
Museum van Aziatische kunst in het Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam : catalogus, H.F.E. Visser, cat.nr. 255
Maandblad voor beeldende kunsten, (1932) oct., p. 319, fig. 3
Maandblad voor beeldende kunsten
The provenance of four sandstone sculptures from Cambodia, William A. Southworth, afb. 7
William Southworth, 'Conceptual Restoration 2 : A body in Cambodia', Aziatische Kunst 45 (2014) nr. 2, p. 13-18.
G. de Coral Rémusat, L'art Khmer, 1940, p. 124-125, pl. 123, 128.
Grostier, Collections Khmères a Phnom Pehn, 1931, pl. VIII.

Persistent URL

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