Jvaradeva, God of Fever

Arts of Asia

14th/15th century

Nepal

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of Asia

Title: Jvaradeva, God of Fever
Place: Nepal (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.: 1201–1400
Medium: Gray schist
Dimensions: 62.6 × 38.8 × 10.8 cm (24 5/8 × 15 1/4 × 4 1/4 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Marilynn B. Alsdorf
Reference Number: 2014.1021
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Gouriswar Bhattacharya, “Identification of a Strange Stone Image from Nepal: Nepal and Tamil Nadu Connection,” in South Asian Archaeology 2001, Vol. II: Historical Archaeology and Art History, ed. Catherine Jarrige and Vincent Lefevre (Paris, 2005), 393-400.
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 in association with Thames and Hudson, 1997), 277, cat. 24, ill. 28.
Ulrich von Schroeder, Nepalese Stone Sculptures, Vol. 1: Hindu (Weesen: Visual Dharma Publications, 2019), 184, pl. 50B.

Art Institute of Chicago, A Collecting Odyssey: Indian, Himalayan, and Southeast Asian Art from the James and Marilynn Alsdorf Collection, Aug. 2–Oct. 26, 1997, cat. 24.

James W. Alsdorf (1913–1990) and Marilynn B. Alsdorf (1925–2019), Winnetka and Chicago, IL, by 1990 [according to the collecting practices of the Alsdorfs]; by descent to Marilynn B. Alsdorf, Chicago, 1990 [on long-term loan at the Art Institute of Chicago, July 15, 1997; publicly promised as a gift to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1997; signed a promised gift agreement for the work, 2002]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2014.

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