Yogini

Object Details

• Description

  Goddess seated cross-legged carved in high relief on a rounded granite slab. Goose vahana carved in light relief on base. She holds a winnower (a basketlike apparatus for separating chaff from grain), a small broom, and a skull cup in three hands, and her forth hand touches her breast in a pose signifying self-absorbtion. She wears a tall crown, one crocodilian and one cobra earring, and her hair is loose behind her head.

• Inscriptions

  On reverse of sculpture at lower right corner, in red paint (?): L68.13.31

  On reverse of sculpture at lower right corner, in red paint (?): L68.13.31

• Collection

  Arthur M. Sackler Collection

• Exhibition History

  The Art of Knowing in South Asia, Southeast Asia, and the Himalayas (March 25, 2023 - ongoing)

  Gods, Companions, and Devotees (October 14, 2017 to March 13, 2020)

  Yoga: The Art of Transformation (October 19, 2013 to January 26, 2014)

  Sculpture of South Asia and the Himalayas (November 19, 1992 to July 9, 2017)

  An Exhibition of the Sculpture of Greater India (1942)

• Previous custodian or owner

  N. Thangavelu Pillai (early 20th century)

  Gabriel Jouveau-Dubreuil (French, 1885-1945)

  C. T. Loo 盧芹齋 (1880-1957)

  C.T. Loo & Company (1914-1948)

  Christian Humann (1929-1981)

  Dr. Mortimer David Sackler (1916-2010)

  Dr. Raymond Sackler (American, 1920-2017)

  Dr. Arthur M. Sackler (1913-1987)

• Credit Line

  Gift of Arthur M. Sackler

• Type

  Sculpture

• On View

  Sackler Gallery 22a: The Art of Knowing in South Asia, Southeast Asia, and the Himalayas

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• Related Resources

  collections.si.edu

• Date

  900s, 800s

• Name

  Loo, C. T., Sackler, Arthur M., Thangavelu Pillai, N., Humann, Christian, Sackler, Mortimer David, Sackler, Raymond, C.T. Loo & Company, Jouveau-Dubreuil, Gabriel

• Place

  India

• Topic

  South Asian and Himalayan Art, Art, Tantra, Chola dynasty (850 - 1280), Goose, Gods, Yogini, Yoga

• Culture

  Himalayan peoples, South Asians, Hindus

• Object Type

  Sculpture

• On View

  Yes