Provenance Information

Unknown German dealer; sold to Spink and Son, London, 1991 or 1992; sold to Robert S. Pirie (1934-2015) and Deirdre Pirie (1937-2016) [see note 1]; sale, Christie's, New York, March 22, 2000, lot 159; sold to Ann R. Kinney and Gilbert H. Kinney (1931–2020), New York, March 22, 2000 (on loan to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 2016–2021); given to the Yale University Art Gallery New Haven, Conn., 2021 Note 1: According to Jane Hoskins-Thurston, Spink acquired this work from an German dealer in 1991 or 1992 and no earlier; Spink sold it to Mr. and Mrs. Pirie, and it was in their possession when in was exhibited in the Asia Society show "Buddha of the Future" in 1994, cat. no. 48 (email November 6, 2012).

Exhibition Information

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Publication Information

Nandana Chutiwongs and Denise Patry Leidy, Buddha of the Future: An Early Maitreya from Thailand, exh. cat. (New York: Asia Society and Museum, 1994), fig. 48.

Denise Patry Leidy, “South and Southeast Asian Sculpture, 7th–9th century,” Arts of Asia (March–April 2018): 62, fig. 8.

Section of the AAMD Guidelines relied upon for the exception to 1970

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Explain why the object fits the exception set forth above

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