Recumbent bull, anonymous, c. 1000 - c. 1200

Identification

Title(s)

Recumbent bull

Object type

Object number

AK-MAK-520

Description

Liggende stier, uitgevoerd in grijze zandsteen.

Creation

Artist

anonymous

Place

Tamil Nadu

Dating

c. 1000 - c. 1200

Material and Technique

Physical features

sandstone

Material

Measurements

height 63 cm × width 64 cm × depth 29 cm × weight 140 kg
width 63 cm × depth 30 cm

Subject

What

bull

Acquisition and rights

Credit line

On loan from the Royal Asian Art Society in The Netherlands (Verburgt-Kramers bequest, 1969)

Acquisition

loan 1972

Copyright

Public domain

Provenance

…; collection Demotte, Paris, before 1921;{Note RMA.}…; collection of Gerrit-Jan Verburgt (1871-1926), The Hague, 1926;{Note RMA.} his widow Carolina Geertruida Verburgt-Kramers (1876-1968), The Hague, by whom bequeathed to the Vereniging van Vrienden der Aziatische Kunst, 1969;{Note RMA.} from whom on loan to the museum, 1972

Bibliography and list of abbreviations for the provenance (pdf)

Relations

Documentation

Aziatische kunst, Jan van, 1965- Campen, cat.nr. 11
Asian art, Jan van, 1965- Campen, cat.nr. 11
Legaat Verburgt, cat.nr. 29
Oosterse schatten: 4000 jaar Aziatische kunst, cat.nr. 561
Catalogus der tentoonstelling van Aziatische kunst in particuliere en openbare collecties in Nederland, cat.nr. 305
Keur van Indische beeldhouwkunst: Choix de sculptures des Indes
Catalogus der tentoonstelling van Indische beeldhouwkunst in het Gemeente-Museum te 's-Gravenhage, van 17 sept. tot half oct. 1922, cat.nr. 23
Ik heet geen Nandi! : nogmaals over de stier van Siva, Anna Slaczka (Anna Aleksandra)
D. Goodall, The Pancavaranastava of Aghorasivacarya, Pondicherry 2005, p. 101.
Margot Marsman, 'Een liggende stier', Aziatische Kunst 34/3 (2004), pp. 39-41.
P. Lunsingh Scheurleer, 'De stier van Shiva uit het Legaat Verburgt', Aziatische Kunst 20 (1990), nr. 4. p. 4-5.
G. Bhattadranya, Nandin and Vrsabha, in Z.D.M.G. Supplement III 2, 1977.
M.A. Dhaky, 'The Nandi-images of Tamil Nadu and Kannadanadu', Artibus Asiae XXXIV (1972), p. 183-200.
O.C. Gangoly, 'On some Hindu relics in Borneo', Journal of the Greater lind. Soc., vol. III (1936), p. 97-103, afb. B, pl. IX.
P. Thomas, Epics, myths and legends of India, Bombay, pl. 18, nr. 56.

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