The Sage Agastya Seated in Meditation on his Water Pot (Kumbha)

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Arts of Asia

15th century

Nepal

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of Asia

Title: The Sage Agastya Seated in Meditation on his Water Pot (Kumbha)
Origin: Nepal
Date: 1401–1500
Medium: Gilt bronze
Dimensions: 12.2 × 9.3 × 4.7 cm (4 3/4 × 3 5/8 × 1 7/8 in.)
Credit Line: Kate S. Buckingham Fund
Reference Number: 1974.236
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Kathryn H. Selig Brown, “Himalayan Gems: Nepalese and Tibetan Art” in Orientations: The Magazine for Collectors and Connoisseurs of Asian Art, Volume 42, No. 3, April 2011, pp. 43-49.
Carol Radcliffe Bolon, “Images of Agastya in Nepal,” Artibus Asiae, Vol. 51, No. 1/2 (1991), pp. 75-89.

Sold to the Art Institute by Mr. Marinos Costeletos, London, June 16, 1975.

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