Rama and Sugriva set out to find Valin?

CC0 Public Domain Designation

Arts of Asia

Gupta period, c. 5th century

India
Uttar Pradesh

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of Asia

Title: Rama and Sugriva set out to find Valin?
Place: Uttar Pradesh (Object Possibly made in)
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Medium: Terracotta
Dimensions: 32 × 27.7 × 12.5 cm (12 9/16 × 10 7/8 × 4 15/16 in.)
Credit Line: James W. and Marilynn Alsdorf Collection. Gift of Marilynn Alsdorf
Reference Number: 2022.1
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Amy G. Poster, From Indian Earth: 4,000 Years of Terracotta Art. (New York: The Brooklyn Museum, 1986), 57, cat. 95.
Pratapaditya Pal with contributions by Stephen Little, A Collecting Odyssey: Indian, Himalayan, and Southeast Asian Art from the James and Marilynn Alsdorf Collection (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago in association with Thames and Hudson, 1997), 41 (ill.), cat. 40, 280–1.
Laxshmi Greaves, “Locating the Lost Gupta Period Ramayana Reliefs from Katingara, Uttar Pradesh” Religions of South Asia, 12, no 2, Equinox Online, 2018: 117–153.

Brooklyn Museum of Art, From Indian Earth: 4,000 Years of Terracotta Art, Jan. 17–Apr. 14, 1986, cat. 95.

With Kapoor Galleries, New York, by 1983 [this and the following according to invoice from Kapoor Galleries, July 27, 1983; copy in curatorial object file]; sold to James W. Alsdorf (1913–1990) and Marilynn B. Alsdorf (1925–2019), Winnetka and Chicago, IL, 1983; by descent to Marilynn B. Alsdorf, Chicago, 1990 [on long-term loan at the Art Institute of Chicago, Sept. 23, 1983; publicly promised as a gift to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1997; signed a promised gift agreement for the work, Apr. 23, 2008]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2021.

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