2018.168.1
Object Title
Hindu Goddess Durga Slaying the Buffalo Demon Mahisha (Mahishasuramardini)
Measurements
40 5/8 × 17 1/2 × 6 1/2 in. (103.2 × 44.5 × 16.5 cm)
Creation Date
late 9th century C.E.
Credit Line
Gift of Ann and Gilbert H. Kinney, B.A. 1953, M.A. 1954
Museum Name
Museum Contact
artgalleryinfo@yale.edu
Culture
Country of Origin
Object Type
Materials / Techniques
Object URL
https://artgallery.yale.edu/collections/objects/211831
Museum's Definition of Antiquity
N/A
Provenance Information
Acquired in Hong Kong by C. Roger Moss, OBE (born 1936), Hong Kong and England, 1990s [see note 1]; sold through Theresa McCullough, ltd., London, to Ann R. Kinney and Gilbert H. Kinney (1931–2020), New York, November 2004 (Kinney inv. no. 75) (on loan to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 2016–18) [see note 2]; given to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 2018
Note 1: Email from C. Roger Moss to the Gallery, April 1, 2015, copy in accession file
Note 2: According to information provided by the donor at the time of accession, the sculpture was consigned to Theresa McCullough for sale during Asian Art week, London, November 4–12, 2004.
Note 1: Email from C. Roger Moss to the Gallery, April 1, 2015, copy in accession file
Note 2: According to information provided by the donor at the time of accession, the sculpture was consigned to Theresa McCullough for sale during Asian Art week, London, November 4–12, 2004.
Exhibition Information
N/A
Publication Information
Denise Patry Leidy, "South and Southeast Asian Sculpture, 7th–9th century," Arts of Asia (March–April 2018): 63, fig. 10.
Jan Fontein, The Sculpture of Indonesia, exh. cat. (Washington DC: National Gallery of Art, 1990).
Jan Fontein, The Sculpture of Indonesia, exh. cat. (Washington DC: National Gallery of Art, 1990).
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
