Figure of Indra's three-headed elephant

Object Details

• Provenance

  From 1966-70 to 1992

  Ken J.J. Baars, acquired in Southeast Asia from a private source. [1]

  From 1992

  Freer Gallery of Art, purchased from Ken J.J. Baars. [2]

  Notes:

  [1] According object record notes, Ken J.J. Baars acquired the object from a private source in Southeast Asia between 1966 and 1970 while he was working on geophysical fieldwork for the Royal Dutch Shell Company. It was shipped to Holland in 1970 with the rest of his collection when his contract with the Brunei Shell Company ended.

  [2] See Freer Gallery of Art Purchase List after 1920, Collections Management Office.

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Previous custodian or owner

  Ken J.J. Baars

• Origin

  Si Satchanalai, Sukhothai province, Thailand

• Credit Line

  Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment

• Type

  Sculpture

• Restrictions and Rights

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• Related Resources

  collections.si.edu

• Date

  1960s, 1950s

• Name

  Baars, Ken J.J.

• Place

  Sukhothai province, Si Satchanalai, Thailand

• Topic

  Art, Animals, White glaze, Brown and black glaze, Southeast Asian Art, Sawankhalok ware, Modern period (1912 - present), Elephants

• Culture

  Southeast Asians

• Tax Class

  Mammalia

• Tax Order

  Proboscidea

• Tax Family

  Elephantidae

• Tax Phylum

  Chordata

• Common Name

  Elephants

• Object Type

  Sculpture

• Tax Kingdom

  Animalia