Object Title
Vishnu Sleeping on the Cosmic Ocean
Measurements
35 1/2 x 48 x 13 in (90.2 x 121.9 x 33 cm)
Creation Date
11th 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/7166/vishnu-sleeping-on-the-cosmic-ocean?ctx=06b890abca526e9f0a02d855e84adfbfc54f1b18&idx=0
Museum's Definition of Antiquity
More than 75 years for Indian art.
Provenance Information
Purchased for MCCM by Robert Walzer [Nathan Rubin - Ida Ladd Family Foundation], Georgetown, Connecticut, from Eleanor Abraham Asian Art, New York, New York, October 6, 2000.
Exhibition Information
MCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, September 2004 - November 2009
Visions of the Cosmos: from Milky Ocean to Black Hole, Rubin Museum of Art, New York, New York, December 12, 2009 - May 2010
MCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, May 26, 2010 - 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
Jonathan Kuhr, Visions of the Cosmos: From the Milky Ocean to an Evolving Universe (New York: Rubin Museum of Art, 2009), 6-7.
Michael C. Carlos Museum: Highlights of the Collections (Atlanta: Michael C. Carlos Museum, 2011), 124.
Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger, Everyday Hinduism (Chichester, West Sussuex: Wiley Blackwell, 2015), 22, Figure 1.1.
Section of the AAMD Guidelines relied upon for the exception to 1970
Gift or bequest expected or on loan prior to 2008
Explain why the object fits the exception set forth above
Was purchased as a gift for the museum before 2008.