Figure of a seated bodhisattva

Object Details

• Provenance

  From 1968 to 2000

  Private collector, acquired in Kathmandu, Nepal, in 1968 from an unknown Tibetan trader [1]

  From 2000

  Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, given by a private collector in 2000

  Notes:

  [1] According to Curatorial Remark 2 in the object record.

• Collection

  National Museum of Asian Art Collection

• Exhibition History

  Sculpture of South Asia and the Himalayas (May 4, 1988 to July 9, 2017)

• Previous custodian or owner

  Dr. Mary Shepherd Slusser (1918-2017)

• Origin

  Tibet

• Credit Line

  Gift in memory of H. Robert Slusser

• Type

  Sculpture

• Restrictions and Rights

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• Related Resources

  collections.si.edu

• Date

  1400s, 1300s

• Name

  Slusser, Mary Shepherd

• Place

  Tibet

• Topic

  South Asian and Himalayan Art, Art, Inlay (process), Bodhisattva

• Culture

  Buddhists, Himalayan peoples, South Asians

• Object Type

  Sculpture