Provenance Information

Prior to 1970, collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul E. Mannheim; thence on September 23, 2009, via Christie's, New York, sale 2195, lot 758, to private collection, New York City, from which acquired by Dallas Museum of Art (accession date: April 23, 2010).

Exhibition Information

DMA, October 2010 through the present.

Publication Information

Bromberg, Anne R. The Arts of India, Southeast Asia, and the Himalayas at the Dallas Museum of Art. Dallas Museum of Art; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2013.

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

Informed judgement that works were outside of the country of modern discovery before 1970

Explain why the object fits the exception set forth above

Although this work’s provenance is established to before 1970, according to the Christie’s catalogue in which it was published in 2009, the DMA has not yet been able to substantiate the precise date of acquisition by Mr. and Mrs. Paul E. Manheim. This piece is a major addition, exceptionally well carved and preserved, to the DMA’s collection of art that reveals the myths and cults of Shiva.