Door Lintel with God Vishnu on His Mount, Garuda, Flanked by the Nine Planetary Deities (Navagraha)

Arts of Asia

c. 8th/9th century

India
Madhya Pradesh

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of Asia

Title: Door Lintel with God Vishnu on His Mount, Garuda, Flanked by the Nine Planetary Deities (Navagraha)
Place: Madhya Pradesh (Object made in)
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Medium: Sandstone
Dimensions: 16.5 × 57.9 × 9.8 cm (6 1/2 × 22 7/8 × 3 7/8 in.)
Credit Line: James W. and Marilynn Alsdorf Collection. Gift of Marilynn Alsdorf
Reference Number: 2021.207
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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), 37 (ill.), 279, cat. 35.

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. 35.

With Spink & Son, London, by June 9, 1980 [this and the following according to invoice from Spink & Son, June 9, 1980; copy in curatorial object file]; sold to James W. Alsdorf (1913–1990) and Marilynn B. Alsdorf (1925–2019), Winnetka and Chicago, IL, June 9, 1980; by descent to Marilynn B. Alsdorf, Chicago, 1990 [on long-term loan at 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, 2021.

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