Goddess Durga Slaying the Buffalo Demon (Mahishasuramardini)

Arts of Asia

9th/10th century

India
Kashmir

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of Asia

Title: Goddess Durga Slaying the Buffalo Demon (Mahishasuramardini)
Place: Kashmir (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.: 801 CE–1000
Medium: Brass inlaid with silver
Dimensions: 16 × 10.8 × 3.5 cm (6 5/16 × 4 1/4 × 1 3/8 in.)
Credit Line: James W. and Marilynn Alsdorf Collection. Gift of Marilynn Alsdorf
Reference Number: 2021.230
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With N.V.S. Douglas, Peekskill, NY, by Mar. 23, 1979 [this and the following according to letter and receipt from N.V.S. Douglas, Mar. 23 and Apr. 2, 1979; copies in curatorial object file]; sold to James W. Alsdorf (1913–1990) and Marilynn B. Alsdorf (1925–2019), Winnetka and Chicago, IL, Apr. 2, 1979; by descent to Marilynn B. Alsdorf, Chicago, 1990 [on long-term loan at the Art Institute of Chicago, Aug. 9, 1996; signed a promised gift agreement for the work, 2008]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2021.

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