Offering Lamp (large)

Object Details

• Provenance

  From at least 2009 to 2019

  Alice S. Kandell, New York, NY [1]

  From 2019

  Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Alice S. Kandell [2]

  Notes:

  [1] This object was owned by Alice S. Kandell by at least 2009, when she loaned it to the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Washington, DC. It was also published in Marylin M. Rhie and Robert A.F. Thurman, A Shrine for Tibet: The Alice S. Kandell Collection (New York: Tibet House, 2009).

  [2] The object was formally accessioned into the Freer Gallery of Art Study Collection on December 11, 2019. See Acquisition Consideration Form, object file.

• Collection

  Freer Study Collection

• Exhibition History

  The Tibetan Buddhist Shrine Room (March 12, 2022 - ongoing)

  Encountering the Buddha: Art and Practice Across Asia (October 14, 2017 to February 6, 2022)

  Doorway to an Enlightened World: The Tibetan Shrine from the Alice S. Kandell Collection (March 19 to November 27, 2016)

  The Tibetan Shrine from the Alice S. Kandell Collection (March 13, 2010 to November 27, 2016)

• Previous custodian or owner

  Alice S. Kandell

• Origin

  Lhasa and Shigatse, Central Tibet

• Credit Line

  The Alice S. Kandell Collection

• Type

  Furniture and Furnishing

• On View

  Sackler Gallery 26a: The Tibetan Buddhist Shrine Room

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• Related Resources

  collections.si.edu

• Date

  1910s, 1870s

• Name

  Kandell, Alice S.

• Place

  Shigatse, Lhasa, Tibet

• Topic

  South Asian and Himalayan Art, Silver, Art, Alice S. Kandell Collection, Metal-work

• Culture

  Himalayan peoples, South Asians

• Object Type

  Furniture, Furnishings

• On View

  Yes