Rubbing: musicians in a parade, from an Angkor Wat bas-relief

Object Details

• Provenance

  From 1987

  National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution, method of acquisition unknown from an unidentified source [1]

  Notes:

  [1] See the Study Collection Donor card, numbered V15.87, dated April 10, 1987, copy in object file. The Donor card sates that this object was formerly hung in John Alexander Pope’s (1906-1982) office at the Freer Gallery of Art, but the object was the “[p]roperty of [the] Gallery; hence not a gift.”

  An annotation on the Donor card indicates that the object entered the Study Collection on September 15, 1987.

  The object is part of the museum’s Freer Study Collection.

  Research updated November 2, 2024

• Collection

  Freer Study Collection

• Origin

  Cambodia

• Credit Line

  Gift of Mrs. John Alexander Pope

• Type

  Rubbing

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• Related Resources

  collections.si.edu

• Date

  1950s

• Place

  Cambodia

• Topic

  Art, Rubbing, Southeast Asian Art, Musicians

• Culture

  Southeast Asians

• Object Type

  Rubbings