Crowned Buddha on a Multi-Headed Serpent (Naga)

Arts of Asia

Angkor period, 12th–13th century

Thailand or Cambodia

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of Asia

Artist: Khmer
Title: Crowned Buddha on a Multi-Headed Serpent (Naga)
Place: Southeast Asia (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.: 1150–1250
Medium: Sandstone
Dimensions: 84.5 × 42 × 26.7 cm (33 1/4 × 16 1/2 × 10 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Marilynn B. Alsdorf
Reference Number: 2016.421
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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 (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago in association with Thames and Hudson, 1997), 117 (ill.), 304, cat. 141.
Robert L. Brown, “An Aesthetic Encounter: Khmer Art from Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam”, Orientations, vol. 42, no. 3 (April 2011), 55, fig. 7.

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. 141.

With Spink & Son, London, by 1984; sold to James W. Alsdorf (1913–1990) and Marilynn B. Alsdorf (1925–2019), Winnetka, IL, 1984; by descent to Marilynn B. Alsdorf, Chicago, IL, 1990 [publicly promised as a gift to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1997; signed a promised gift agreement for the work, Mar. 11, 2002 and April 23, 2008]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, Nov. 15, 2016.

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