Provenance Information

Said to be ex European collection. Purchased for MCCM by Robert Wazler [Nathan Rubin-Ida Ladd Family Foundation], Georgetown, Connecticut.

Exhibition Information

MCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, September 2004 - March 15, 2016;
Doorway to an Enlightened World, Michael C. Carlos Museum, March 19 - November 27, 2016;
MCCM Permanent Collection Gallery, January 17, 2017 - 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), 121.

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 2002.

Provenance Information

With Sotheby's New York, sale 6964, March 20, 1997, lot 116. Purchased for MCCM by Robert Wazler [Nathan Rubin - Ida Ladd Family Foundation], Georgetown, Connecticut, from Kapoor Galleries, New York, New York, March-April 2001.

Exhibition Information

MCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, September 2004 - December 2013;
Golden Visions of Densatil: A Tibetan Buddhist Monastery, Asia Society Museum, New York, New York, February 19 - May 18, 2014;
MCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, October 27, 2014 - April 4, 2021;
MCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, August 28, 2021 - Present

Publication Information

Sotheby's New York, Indian and Southeast Asian Art (March 20, 1997), lot 116.;
Olaf Czaja, Medieval Rule in Tibet: The Rlangs Clan and the Political and Religious History of the Ruling House of Phag mo gru pa, Volume I (Wien: Verlag der Osterreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2013), note 249.;
"Fragments of a Monastery, Reunited in Body and Spirit. 'Golden Visions of Densatil' Opens at Asia Society," The New York Times, February 20, 2014.;
Olaf Czaja and Adriana Proser, Golden Visions of Densatil: a Tibetan Buddhist Monastery (New York: Asia Society Museum, 2014), 100-01, catalogue 14.

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 2001.

Provenance Information

Ex coll., Europe, until March 22, 2000. Purchased for MCCM by Robert Walzer [Nathan Rubin - Ida Ladd Family Foundation], Georgetown, Connecticut, from Christie's New York, Sale 9390, March 22, 2000, lot 56.

Exhibition Information

MCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, September 2004 - August 29, 2018;
MCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, August 28, 2021 - Present

Publication Information

Christie's New York, Indian and Southeast Asian Art (March 22, 2000), 58, lot 56.

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 2001.

Provenance Information

Ex coll., Europe, until March 22, 2000. Purchased for MCCM by Robert Walzer [Nathan Rubin - Ida Ladd Family Foundation], Georgetown, Connecticut, from Christie's New York, Sale 9390, March 22, 2000, lot 93.

Exhibition Information

MCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, September 2004 - August 29, 2018;
MCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, August 28, 2021 - Present

Publication Information

Christie's New York, Indian and Southeast Asian Art (March 22, 2000), 92-93, lot 93.

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 2001.

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

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.

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.

Provenance Information

von Schroeder collection, Switzerland; Carl Laszlo Collection, Basel; Kollar Avedon ?, Zurich, October 30, 2012; Kapoor Galleries, New York; Rubin-Ladd Foundation, Georgetown, Conn., to 2017; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.

Exhibition Information

N/A

Publication Information

"Acquisitions July 1, 2016–June 30, 2017," https://artgallery.yale.edu/sites/default/files/files/bulletin/Pub-Bull-acquisitions-2017.pdf (accessed December 1, 2017).

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

N/D

Explain why the object fits the exception set forth above

Research into ownership by prior donors, dealers and collectors still ongoing. YUAG accepted this gift in order to bring the object into a free, publicly accessible, educational institution, where it could be studied, displayed, and publicized.

Provenance Information

Private German collection, 1980s or 1990s; Kapoor Galleries, New York, September 2002; Rubin-Ladd Foundation, Georgetown, Conn., to 2017; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.

Exhibition Information

N/A

Publication Information

"Acquisitions July 1, 2016–June 30, 2017," https://artgallery.yale.edu/sites/default/files/files/bulletin/Pub-Bull-acquisitions-2017.pdf (accessed December 1, 2017).

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

N/D

Explain why the object fits the exception set forth above

Written testimony from the dealer that he purchased the object in the late 1980s or early 1990s.Research into ownership by prior donors, dealers and collectors still ongoing. YUAG accepted this gift in order to bring the object into a free, publicly accessible, educational institution, where it could be studied, displayed, and publicized.

Provenance Information

probably late 1970s - 2007 collection of P. Ciucci, Milano (probably acquired on London market); 2007 - 2009 collection of Carlo Cristi, Milano (purchased from P. Ciucci); 2009 Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca (purchased from Carlo Cristi)

Exhibition Information

Carlo Cristi Arte Orientale Tessili, at AFP Galleries in The Fuller Building, New York, Asia Week 2009: Arts of Tibet and Central Asia, Mar 9 -18, 2009

Publication Information

Unknown

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 Museum has a small but significant collection of Tibetan art including paintings and scrolls, as well as a single illuminated cover and frontispiece for a manuscript, but no examples of the actual illuminated folios or leaves from such manuscripts. Significant examples of this specific form of manuscript and illustration are rare. This exceptional folio is one of a pair, and the two together demonstrate the importance of this medium and form in the Tibetan culture, particularly when they are held in dialogue with the Tibetan paintings and thangka illustrating similar themes and stories, in our collection.

Provenance Information

probably late 1970s - 2007 collection of P. Ciucci, Milano (probably acquired on London market); 2007 - 2009 collection of Carlo Cristi, Milano (purchased from P. Ciucci); 2009 Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca (purchased from Carlo Cristi)

Exhibition Information

Carlo Cristi Arte Orientale Tessili, at AFP Galleries in The Fuller Building, New York, Asia Week 2009: Arts of Tibet and Central Asia, Mar 9 -18, 2009

Publication Information

Unknown

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 Museum has a small but significant collection of Tibetan art including paintings and scrolls, as well as a single illuminated cover and frontispiece for a manuscript, but no examples of the actual illuminated folios or leaves from such manuscripts. Significant examples of this specific form of manuscript and illustration are rare. This exceptional folio is one of a pair, and the two together demonstrate the importance of this medium and form in the Tibetan culture, particularly when they are held in dialogue with the Tibetan paintings and thangka illustrating similar themes and stories, in our collection.

Provenance Information

Sonam Tashi, Hong Kong [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; John and Berthe Ford, Baltimore, 1996, by purchase; given to Walters Art Museum, 2014.

Exhibition Information

Desire and Devotion: Art from India, Nepal, and Tibet in the John and Berthe Ford Collection. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore; Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara; Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque; Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham. 2001-2003.

Publication Information

Pal, Pratapaditya. Desire and Devotion : Art From India, Nepal, and Tibet in the John and Berthe Ford Collection. Baltimore, Md. : Walters Art Museum ; London : Philip Wilson. 2001.

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

A Memorandum of Understanding between the Walters Art Museum and John and Berthe Ford about this promised gift was signed September 1997.