Crocodile-Headed Female Buddhist Deity (Makaravaktra Dakini)

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Arts of Asia

18th century

Tibet

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of Asia

Title: Crocodile-Headed Female Buddhist Deity (Makaravaktra Dakini)
Place: Tibet (Object 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.: 1701–1800
Medium: Gilt bronze
Dimensions: 8.4 × 4.6 × 3.6 cm (3 5/16 × 1 13/16 × 1 3/8 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Marilynn B. Alsdorf
Reference Number: 2012.684
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Pratapaditya Pal with contributions by Stephen Little, A Collecting Odyssey: Indian, Himalayan, and Southeast Asian Art from the James and Marilynn Alsdorf Collection (The Art Institute of Chicago/Thames and Hudson, 1997), p. 335: 276
Christie’s New York Auction, March 22, 2012, Lot 109

Alsdorf Galleries of Indian, Southeast Asian, Himalayan, and Islamic Art, The Art Institute of Chicago, November 2008 - November 2010.
Chicago, IL, Art Institute of Chicago, A Collecting Odyssey: Indian, Himalayan, and Southeast Asian Art from the James and Marilynn Alsdorf Collection, August 2–October 26, 1997.

Most likely sold to Mr. James W. Alsdorf (died 1990), Chicago, Ill., by Mr. James Singer, London, United Kingdom, November 28, 1977; Loaned long-term to the Art Institute of Chicago by Mrs. James W. Alsdorf (née Marilynn Bruder), Chicago, Ill., August 9, 1996; Returned to Mrs. James W. Alsdorf (née Marilynn Bruder), Chicago, Ill., by the Art Institute of Chicago, November, 2010; Gifted to the Art Institute of Chicago by Mrs. James W. Alsdorf (née Marilynn Bruder), Chicago, Ill., October 30, 2012.

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