God Shiva Seated with His Consort Parvati

CC0 Public Domain Designation

Arts of Asia

14th century

India
Kerala

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of Asia

Title: God Shiva Seated with His Consort Parvati
Place: Kerala (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.: 1301–1400
Medium: Bronze
Dimensions: 29.8 × 30.5 × 24 cm (11 11/16 × 12 × 3 9/16 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Marilynn B. Alsdorf
Reference Number: 2019.734
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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), 26 (ill.), 276, cat. 21.
Thomas Eugene Donaldson, Siva-Parvati and Allied Images (New Delhi: D.K. Printworld, 2007), vol. 2: 254, fig. 529.

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. 21.
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–July 23, 2000, no cat. no.

With Spink & Son, London, by June 4, 1984 [this and the following according to invoice from Spink & Son June 4, 1984; copy in curatorial object file]; sold to James W. Alsdorf (1913–1990) and Marilynn B. Alsdorf (1925–2019), Winnetka and Chicago, IL, June 4, 1984; by descent to Marilynn B. Alsdorf, Chicago, 1990 [on long-term loan to the Art Institute of Chicago, Sept. 17, 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, 2019.

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