Object Title
Footprints of the Buddha (Buddhapada)
Measurements
34 × 49 1/4 × 2 1/2 in. (86.36 × 125.1 × 6.35 cm)
Creation Date
2nd century CE
Credit Line
Gift of the Rubin-Ladd Foundation under the bequest of Ester R. Portnow
Museum Contact
artgalleryinfo@yale.edu
Culture
Country of Origin
Object Type
Materials / Techniques
Object URL
https://artgallery.yale.edu/collections/objects/112686
Museum's Definition of Antiquity
N/A
Provenance Information
London-based Pakistani collector; acquired by John Eskenazi Ltd., New York; sold to The Rubin - Ladd Foundation, New York, and Georgetown, Conn, October 30, 2002; given to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 2015
Exhibition Information
ReKahn - Asian, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.

Katonah Museum of Art , October 17, 2004 - Jan 9, 2005 Honolulu Academy of Arts, Jan 26 - May 29, 2005 Rubin Museum of Art, June 14 - Sept 4, 2005
Publication Information
Kathryn H. Selig Brown, Eternal Presence: Handprints and Footprints in Buddhist Art, exh. cat. (Katonah, N.Y.: Katonah Museum of Art, 2004), 34–35, pl. 1.

“Acquisitions July 1, 2015–June 30, 2016,” https://artgallery.yale.edu/sites/default/files/files/Pub_Bull_acquisitions_2016.pdf (accessed December 1, 2016).

David Ake Sensabaugh, “Footprints of the Buddha,” Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2017): 84, fig. 1.
Section of the AAMD Guidelines relied upon for the exception to 1970
N/D
Explain why the object fits the exception set forth above
N/A