Female nature spirit, anonymous, c. 100 - c. 200

Identification

Title(s)

Female nature spirit

Object type

Object number

AK-MAK-303

Description

Pijler van een stupa-omheining voorstellende een yakshini met een offerande. De pijler is uitgevoerd in rode zandsteen met geel-witte stippen.

Creation

Artist

anonymous

Place

Mathura

Dating

c. 100 - c. 200

Material and Technique

Physical features

sandstone

Material

sandstone

Measurements

height 95.0 cm × width 22.0 cm × depth 15.0 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 (purchase heirs W.O.J. Nieuwenkamp, 1960)

Acquisition

loan 1972

Copyright

Public domain

Provenance

…; collection Léonce Rosenberg (1879-1947);{Note RMA.}...; from the heirs of Wijnand Otto Jan Nieuwenkamp (1874-1950), fl. 9,500, to the Vereniging van Vrienden der Aziatische Kunst, 1960;{Note RMA.} from whom on loan to the museum, 1972

Bibliography and list of abbreviations for the provenance (pdf)

Documentation

Aziatische kunst, cat.nr. 2
Asian art, cat.nr. 2
L'escultura en los templos indios : el arte de la devoción, Claudine Bautze-Picron, p. 129, cat.nr. 82
L'escultura en els temples indis : l'art de la devoció, Claudine Bautze-Picron, p. 129, cat.nr. 82
History of early stone sculpture at Mathura, ca. 150 BCE - 100 CE, Sonya Rhie Quintanilla, Pramod Chandra, fig. 201, 203, 207
Kushana sculptures from Sanghol (1st-2nd century A.D.) : a recent discovery, S. P. Gupta, Nematullah Shah, fig. 14
Kushan sculpture : images from early India, Stanislaw J. Czuma, Rekha Morris, fig. 26.2
Asiatic art in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, p. 136, cat.nr. 148
Maandblad voor beeldende kunsten
Catalogus der tentoonstelling van Indische beeldhouwkunst in het Gemeente-Museum te 's Gravenhage ... van 17 Sept. tot half Oct. 1922, cat.nr. 6
Veilingcat. Collection Léonce Rosenberg, Amsterdam (A.Mak), 13 januari 1920, nr. 47.
Heinz Mode, Mathura: Metropole altindischer Steinskulptur, Leipzig 1986, fign. 12-14 ; 17-19, 22.
G. Roth, 'The woman and Tree Motif, Salabhanjika-dalama-lika ni Prakrit + Sanskrit texts with special reference to Silpasastra including notes on Dohada and related Jaina Texts', Jaina Journal, Calcutta XIV 14 april 1980. p. 147-185.
D. Gupta, Buddhist sculpture from Sanghol. A recent discovery. New Delhi, 1985.
A.K. Coomaraswamy, Yaksas, Washington 1928-1931.

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