Four-Armed Dancing God Ganesha with His Rat Mount

Arts of Asia

16th/17th century

Nepal
Kathmandu Valley

Status: Currently Off View
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), 19-20.
Madhuvanti Ghose. “Four-Armed Dancing God Ganesha with His Rat Mount” Notable Acquisitions at the Art Institute of Chicago, Museum Studies 35, no. 2 (Art Institute of Chicago, 2009): 38-39.

Stolper Galleries, Munich; sold to James W. Alsdorf (1913–1990) and Marilynn B. Alsdorf (1925–2019), Winnetka and Chicago, IL, Feb. 4, 1979 [invoice from Stolper Galleries, Feb. 4, 1979; copy in curatorial object file]; by descent to Marilynn B. Alsdorf, Chicago, 1990; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2008.

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