Stele with Episode from the Life of the Buddha (Monkey Offers Honey to the Buddha)

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Arts of Asia

Pala period, 10th century

India
Bihar

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of Asia

Title: Stele with Episode from the Life of the Buddha (Monkey Offers Honey to the Buddha)
Place: Bihar (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.: 901 CE–1000
Medium: Black chlorite
Dimensions: 36.2 × 22.9 × 12.7 cm (14 1/4 × 9 × 5 in.)
Credit Line: James W. and Marilynn Alsdorf Collection. Gift of Marilynn Alsdorf
Reference Number: 2020.549
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R.D Banerji, Eastern Indian School of Medieval Sculpture, Vol. XLVII (New Delhi: Archaeological Survey of India, 1933), pl. XXVII and XXIX.
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), 133, pl. 109.
Pratapaditya Pal, “Collecting Odyssey: Reflections on the Alsdorf Collection,” Arts of Asia 27 (Sept.–Oct. 1997), 106, 108 and fig. 16.

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. 133.
Memphis, TN, The Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Realm of the Gods: Masterpieces of Indian Sculpture from The Art Institute of Chicago and The Alsdorf Collection, Apr. 30–Jul. 23, 2000, no cat. no.

Puran Chand Nahar, Calcutta (present-day Kolkata), India, by 1933 [Banerji 1933]. With William H. Wolff, New York, by Nov. 3, 1973 [this and the following according to invoice from William H. Wolff, Nov. 3, 1973; copy in curatorial object file]; sold to James W. Alsdorf (1913–1990) and Marilynn B. Alsdorf (1925–2019), Winnetka and Chicago, IL, Nov. 3, 1973 [on long-term loan at the Art Institute of Chicago, Feb. 8, 1983]; by descent to Marilynn B. Alsdorf, Chicago, 1990 [ 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, 2020.

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