Ganesha, anonymous, 850 - 930

Identification

Title(s)

Ganesha

Object type

Object number

AK-MAK-251

Description

Ganesha.

Creation

Artist

anonymous

Place

Java

Dating

850 - 930

Material and Technique

Material

bronze (metal)

Measurements

height 10.9 cm × width 6.5 cm × depth 5.3 cm × weight 424 gr

Subject

What

representations ~ gods, demi-gods, heroes, etc. (Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism)

Acquisition and rights

Credit line

On loan from the Royal Asian Art Society in The Netherlands (purchase Jacques Aalderink, Amsterdam, 1949)

Acquisition

loan 1972

Copyright

Public domain

Provenance

…; from the dealer Jacques Aalderink, Amsterdam, fl. 2,400, with 1 other object, to the Vereniging van Vrienden der Aziatische Kunst, 1949;{Note RMA.} From whom on loan to the museum, 1972

Bibliography and list of abbreviations for the provenance (pdf)

Documentation

Divine bronze, Pauline Lunsingh Scheurleer, p.81, cat.nr. 29
Oosterse schatten, cat.nr. 648
Museum van Aziatische kunst in het Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, H.F.E. Visser, cat.nr. 283
Bulletin van de Vereniging van Vrienden der Aziatische kunst, 29 (1950) apr.
F.D.K. Bosch, 'Een drietal Hindoe-Javaanse bronzen godenfiguren', BVVAK (1950), p. 21-23.

Persistent URL

To refer to this object please use the following persistent URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.1967

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