2011.501

Object Title
Jain Goddess Padmavati
Measurements
H. 9 ½ in. (24 cm)
Creation Date
ca. 10th century
Credit Line
Purchase, Vijay K. Anand, M.D., Nanda Anand, Maya Anand, and Rohit Anand, 2011
Culture
Country of Origin
Object Type
Materials / Techniques
Object URL
http://www.metmuseum.org/Collections/search-the-collections/60051141
Provenance Information
Acquired by Simon Digby (b. 1932 – d. 2010) prior to 1985; Digby collection sold after Digby’s death by John Siudmak, London.
Exhibition Information
None.
Publication Information
John Siudmak Asian Art. Indian and Himalayan Sculpture and Thankhas from the Collection of the Late Simon Digby, New York, March 2011, no. 8 (sale catalogue).
Section of the AAMD Guidelines relied upon for the exception to 1970
Cumulative facts and circumstances
Explain why the object fits the exception set forth above
The work has provenance established to 1985. Simon Digby, who was born in India to English parents, was a former curator of the Ashmolean Museum and later an independent scholar. John Siudmak has confirmed that he saw this work in Simon Digby’s collection in the United Kingdom in 1985. Early medieval bronzes of Jain deities - this is a ca. 10th century work - are extremely rare and this work is the first Jain image of a female deity in The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s collection.

2008.279

Object Title
Enthroned Jina, Probably Neminatha
Measurements
H. 13 3/4 in. (34.9 cm); W. 11 1/4 in. (28.6 cm); D. 3 1/2 in. (8.9 cm)
Creation Date
ca. 7th century A.D.
Credit Line
Purchase, several members of The Chairman’s Council Gifts and Josephine Jackson Foundation Gift, 2008
Country of Origin
Object Type
Materials / Techniques
Object URL
http://www.metmuseum.org/works_of_art/collection_database/all/enthroned_jina_possibly_neminatha/objectview.aspx?collID=6&OID=60048796
Provenance Information
Purchased from Spink & Son, London, by The Jina Collection, United States, before 1994. Purchased by The Metropolitan Museum of Art from Carlton Rochell, Ltd., New York, in 2008.
Exhibition Information
The work was on loan to, and exhibited at, the Smithsonian's Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery from 1994 to 2000 with interruption to feature in the touring exhibition, The Peaceful Liberators: Jain Art from India, which was exhibited at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art from November 6, 1994 to January 22 1995, the Kimbell Art Museum from March 5 to May 28, 1995, the New Orleans Museum of Art from July 15 to September 17, 1995 and the Victoria and Albert Museum, November 2, 1995 to January 21, 1996.
Publication Information
The work was published in Octagon by Spink & Son, London, in 1982. The work was published in the catalogue for the Peaceful Liberators exhibition: Pal, P. (ed.), The Peaceful Liberators: Jain Art from India, New York: Thames and Hudson, 1994, pg. 142. The work was published in Peter Marks Gallery, The Jina Collection, 2001, New York, fig. 2.
Section of the AAMD Guidelines relied upon for the exception to 1970
Cumulative facts and circumstances
Explain why the object fits the exception set forth above
This work has provenance established to at least 1982. The work has been exhibited widely and published three times. The work extends the chronology of early medieval Jain art that The Metropolitan Museum of Art can present by several centuries with an example of exceptional aesthetic standard.
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