Goddess Uma, Consort of Shiva

Vijayanagar period, about 1500

India
Tamil Nadu

Status: On View, Gallery 141
Department: Arts of Asia

Title: Goddess Uma, Consort of Shiva
Place: Tamil Nadu (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.: 1499–1599
Medium: Bronze
Dimensions: 95 × 39.4 × 28.4 cm (37 3/8 × 15 1/2 × 11 3/16 in.)
Credit Line: Kate S. Buckingham Fund
Reference Number: 1961.776
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Sherman Lee, Pramod Chandra, John Maxon, Laurence Sickman, Master bronzes of India, 1965, cat. 57.
Archives of the Chinese Art Society of America 16 (1962): 104-124.
Pratapaditya Pal, “Sculptures from South India in The Art Institute of Chicago” The Art Institute of Chicago: Museum Studies 22, No. 1 (1996): 28, fig.8.

Art Institute of Chicago, Master Bronzes of India, Sept. 3-Oct.10, 1965, cat. 57; Kansas City, MO, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Oct. 21-Nov. 30, 1965; Cleveland Museum of Art, Jan. 18-Feb. 27, 1966; New York, Asia House Gallery, Oct. 12-Dec. 11, 1966.
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 Nasli M. Heeramaneck, New York, by June 2, 1961 [receipt of object; copy in curatorial object file]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, Sept. 25, 1961.

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