Head of Goddess Prajnaparamita or Tara

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Arts of Asia

Angkor period, late 12th–early 13th century

Cambodia

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Department: Arts of Asia

Artist: Khmer
Title: Head of Goddess Prajnaparamita or Tara
Place: Cambodia (Object Probably made in)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1175–1225
Medium: Sandstone
Dimensions: 36.4 × 21.2 × 21.1 cm (14 3/8 × 8 3/8 × 8 15/16 in.)
Credit Line: Samuel M. Nickerson Endowment
Reference Number: 1924.43
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Foucher, Alfred, « Matériaux pour servir à l’étude de l’art khmèr. III. La Collection Moura », Bulletin de la Commission archéologique de l’Indochine (1913), 94, pl. I, fig. 1.
C.F.K. [Charles Fabens Kelley], “Cambodian Sculptures”, Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago, vol. 18, no. 4 (1924), 42–43, cover (image).
Coomaraswamy, Ananda K., « Catalogue des pièces khmères conservées dans les musées de l’Amérique du Nord », Art et archéologie khmers, tome 2, fascicule 2 (1925), 240.
Kelley, Charles Fabens, Handbook of the Department of Oriental Art (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1933), 59, fig. 77.
Sherman E. Lee, Ancient Cambodian Sculpture (New York: The Asia Society, 1969), 87, 111, cat. 52.

The Asia House Gallery, Ancient Cambodian Sculpture, New York City, Oct. 9–Dec. 7, 1969, cat. 52.

With Jean Moura (1827‒1885), Moissac, France, by 1879; by descent to his wife, Elisabeth Coralie Moura (1829‒1922; born Elisabeth Coralie Chantot), Moissac, France, 1885 [Foucher 1913]. With Ching Tsai Loo (1880‒1957), Paris, France, by 1922; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1924.

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