Four-Armed Dancing God Ganesha with His Rat Mount

16th/17th century

Nepal
Kathmandu Valley

Status: On View, Gallery 141
Department: Arts of Asia

Title: Four-Armed Dancing God Ganesha with His Rat Mount
Place: Nepal (Artist's nationality:)
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.: 1501–1700
Medium: Gilt bronze repoussé
Dimensions: 50.9 × 39.9 × 14 cm (20 × 15 5/8 × 5 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Marilynn B. Alsdorf
Reference Number: 2008.701
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Art Institute of Chicago, Annual Report 2008-2009 (Art Institute of Chicago, 2009), pp. 19-20.
Ghose, Madhuvanti. 2009. “Four-Armed Dancing God Ganesha with His Rat Mount” Notable Acquisitions at the Art Institute of Chicago, Museum Studies 35 2, pp. 38-39.
Notable Acquistions at the Art Institute of Chicago (Art Insitute of Chicago, 2009), p. 38.

Sold, Stolper Galleries, Munich, Germany, February 4, 1979, to James W. Alsdorf (died 1990) and Marilynn (née Bruder) Alsdorf (died 2019), Winnetka, IL [invoice in curatorial file]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2008.

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