Object Title
Bodhisattva in Full Lotus Position
Measurements
128 x 101 cm
Creation Date
2nd Century CE
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/6774/bodhisattva-in-full-lotus-position?ctx=023e6fb9631976066e732d0202df6fa706112d2e&idx=0
Museum's Definition of Antiquity
Older than 100 years
Provenance Information
Said to be ex coll Simpson Family, Canada, from 1920s. Purchased for MCCM by Robert Walzer [Nathan Rubin - Ida Ladd Family Foundation], Georgetown, Connecticut, from Kapoor Galleries, New York, New York, September 1999.
Exhibition Information
MCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, September 2004 - April 4, 2021;
MCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, August 28, 2021 - Present
Publication Information
Michael C. Carlos Museum: Highlights of the Collections (Atlanta: Michael C. Carlos Museum, 2011), 118.
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
Acquired by museum in 2000.