Object Title
Dancing Balakrishna
Measurements
18 1/4 x 7 3/4 x 6 in (46.3 x 19.7 x 15.3 cm)
Creation Date
late 11th-late 13th Century
Credit Line
The Ester R. Portnow Collection of Asian Art, a gift of the Nathan Rubin-Ida Ladd Family Foundation
Museum Contact
ashanle@emory.edu
Culture
Country of Origin
Object Type
Materials / Techniques
Object URL
https://collections.carlos.emory.edu/objects/7126/dancing-balakrishna?ctx=2a100122aca352e97e288aed3c001a5660882276&idx=0
Museum's Definition of Antiquity
Older than 75 years for Indian art
Provenance Information
Said to be ex coll. Dr. Josef R. Belmont (1886-1981), Basel, Switzerland. Purchased for MCCM by Robert Walzer [Nathan Rubin - Ida Ladd Family Foundation], Georgetown, Connecticut, from Sotheby's New York, Sale 7510, September 22, 2000, lot 148.
Exhibition Information
Indische Kunst, Wurtembergischer Kunstuerein, Stuttgart, Germany, January 20 - March 13, 1966 (by repute)
Indische Kunst, Museum fur Kunst und Geouerbe, Hamburg, Germany, May 18 - July 31, 1966 (by repute)
MCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, September 2004 - April 4, 2021
The Avatars of Vishnu, Michael C. Carlos Museum, April 24 - July 18, 2021
MCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, August 28, 2021 - Present
Publication Information
Sotheby's New York, Indian and Southeast Asian Art (September 22, 2000), lot 148.
MCCM Newsletter, December 2000 - February 2001.
Michael C. Carlos Museum: Highlights of the Collections (Atlanta: Michael C. Carlos Museum, 2011), 126.
Section of the AAMD Guidelines relied upon for the exception to 1970
Cumulative facts and circumstances
Explain why the object fits the exception set forth above
Was said to have been in a travelling show in Germany in the 1960s.