Provenance Information

With Jan Miog, The Hague [see note 1]; sale, Christie's, Amsterdam, June 7, 1989, lot 242; sold to Ann R. Kinney and Gilbert H. Kinney (1931–2020), Washington, D.C., later New York, June 7, 1989 (on loan to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 2016–2021); given to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 2021 Note 1: According to H. Kreijger, Jan Miog mainly collected Tibetan art, but had some Southeast Asian art as well, all of which was acquired from Dutch collectors and dealers (email November 15, 2011).

Exhibition Information

n/a

Publication Information

J. E. van Lohuizen-De Leeuw, Indo-Javanese Metalwork (Stuttgart, Germany: Linden-Museum Stuttgart, 1984), fig. 9.

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

N/D

Explain why the object fits the exception set forth above

n/a

Provenance Information

c. 1961/before c. 1975 – 2008 collection of Thomas Carroll (b. 1919), Chevy Chase, MD (acquired in Latin America while stationed with the Food and Agriculture Organization, UN (1958-1961) or while working on assignment with the Inter-American Development Bank (1961-1984)); 2008 collection of Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca (gift of Thomas Carroll)

Exhibition Information

Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, A New World: Pre-Columbian Art from the Carroll Collection, March 29 – June 15, 2008

Publication Information

Scott, John F. and Laura Johnson-Kelly. A New World: Pre-Columbian Art from the Carroll Collection [an exh. cat.]. (Ithaca: Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, 2008); ref. p. 93, color illus. p. 93, cat. no. 144.

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

The donor pledged part of his collection, including this object, to the museum prior to 2008, as per correspondence between the donor and the museum dated 2005, on file. The object was acquired by the donor between the 1960s and early 1970s, while stationed in or on assignment to Latin America.

Provenance Information

c. 1961/before c. 1975 – 2008 collection of Thomas Carroll (b. 1919), Chevy Chase, MD (acquired in Latin America while stationed with the Food and Agriculture Organization, UN (1958-1961) or while working on assignment with the Inter-American Development Bank (1961-1984)); 2008 collection of Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca (gift of Thomas Carroll)

Exhibition Information

Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, A New World: Pre-Columbian Art from the Carroll Collection, March 29 – June 15, 2008

Publication Information

Scott, John F. and Laura Johnson-Kelly. A New World: Pre-Columbian Art from the Carroll Collection [an exh. cat.]. (Ithaca: Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, 2008); ref. p. 85, color illus. p. 85, cat. no. 120.

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

The donor pledged part of his collection, including this object, to the museum prior to 2008, as per correspondence between the donor and the museum dated 2005, on file. The object was acquired by the donor between the 1960s and early 1970s, while stationed in or on assignment to Latin America.

Provenance Information

Kaikodo, New York, NY, USA and Kamakura, Japan;
1997 - 2014 Edith J. Spink (1921–2011), St. Louis, MO, purchased from Kaikodo; 2014 Saint Louis Art Museum, bequest of Edith J. and C. C. Johnson Spink

Exhibition Information

None known.

Publication Information

Kaikodo Journal (New York: Kaikodo, 1997), catalogue no. 66.

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

In a letter dated August 16, 1988, C.C. Johnson Spink wrote to a Hong Kong dealer explaining that his purchase was “destined for the St. Louis Art Museum” and that “the collection…will be given to the Museum at some future date.” This object was part of a collection of 215 works of Chinese or Japanese origin, collected by C. C. Johnson Spink and Edith J. Spink from the 1970s through the 1990s. The Museum formally received the collection by bequest in 2014.

Provenance Information

Ron Messick Fine Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; John G. Bourne, 1990s, by purchase; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 2017.

Exhibition Information

Exploring Art of the Ancient Americas: The John Bourne Collection Gift. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore; Albuquerque Museum of Art & History; Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville. 2012-2013.

Publication Information

Reents-Budet, Dorie. Exploring art of the ancient Americas: The John Bourne Collection. Baltimore: Walters Art Museum, 2012.

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

Communications between the Walters Art Museum and the donor of this promised gift began in April 2005.

Provenance Information

Acquired by Simon Digby (b. 1932 – d. 2010) before 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. 7 (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 mounted this work for Simon Digby shortly before Simon Digby moved to Jersey in 1985. The work is exceptionally rare and would add considerably to the Museum’s collection because it represents a deity rarely seen in museum collections. Very few medieval stone images of Manasa are recorded and this is the only known repousee metal example.