Object Title
Abbott of Ngor Ewam Cchöden Monastery
Measurements
261.6 x 140.3 cm
Creation Date
early 17th Century
Credit Line
The Ester R. Portnow Collection of Asian Art, a gift of the Nathan Rubin - Ida Ladd Family Foundation
Museum Name
Museum Contact
ashanle@emory.edu
Culture
Country of Origin
Object Type
Object URL
https://collections.carlos.emory.edu/objects/6695/abbot-of-ngor-ewam-cchoden-monastery?ctx=6602331399204721d61a8a75b56cd8ed900f4159&idx=0
Museum's Definition of Antiquity
Older than 100 years
Provenance Information
From Ngor, Tibet. 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 - February 18, 2012;
MCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, August 28, 2021 - October 17, 2022
MCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, August 28, 2021 - October 17, 2022
Publication Information
Michael C. Carlos Museum: Highlights of the Collections (Atlanta: Michael C. Carlos Museum, 2011), 122.;
Jörg Heimbel, "Portraits of the Great Abbots of Ngor: The Memorial or Death Anniversary Thangka (dus thang)," in Gateways to Tibetan Studies: A Collection of Essays in Honour of David P. Jackson on the Occasion of His 70th Birthday, ed. Volker Caumanns et al. (Hamburg: Universität Hamburg, 2021), 326, number 3.3.
Jörg Heimbel, "Portraits of the Great Abbots of Ngor: The Memorial or Death Anniversary Thangka (dus thang)," in Gateways to Tibetan Studies: A Collection of Essays in Honour of David P. Jackson on the Occasion of His 70th Birthday, ed. Volker Caumanns et al. (Hamburg: Universität Hamburg, 2021), 326, number 3.3.
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.