Provenance Information

With Joseph Coplin and Robin Beningson [Antiquarium, Ltd.], New York, New York, from at least 1996.

Exhibition Information

Monsters, Demons & Winged Beasts: Composite Creatures in the Ancient World, Michael C. Carlos Museum, February 5 - June 19, 2011;
Michael C. Carlos Museum Morgens West Foundation Galleries of Ancient Near Eastern Art, November 10, 2018 - Present

Publication Information

Antiquarium, Ltd., Zoologica (1996), 20.

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

Object had been published 12 years before coming to museum. The Carlos continues to conduct provenance research on this object and all of our collections.

Provenance Information

Said to be ex private collection, United Kingdom, acquired during diplomatic service in Sudan, early 1970s. Ex coll. Michael Hedqvist [Phoenix Ancient Art SA], Geneva, Switzerland, acquired from Swiss art market, 2001. With Joseph Coplin and Robin Beningson [Antiquarium, Ltd.], New York, New York, from 2005. Purchased by MCCM from Antiquarium, Ltd.

Exhibition Information

MCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, 2006 - December 1, 2014;
African Cosmos: Stellar Arts, Michael C. Carlos Museum, January 31 - June 21, 2015;
MCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, July 8, 2015 - Present

Publication Information

Ancient Treasures IV (New York: Antiquarium Ltd, 2006), 6.
Michael C. Carlos Museum: Highlights of the Collections (Atlanta: Michael C. Carlos Museum, 2011), 26.
Marjorie M. Fisher, et al., Ancient Nubia: African Kingdoms on the Nile (Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press, 2012), 126, figure 83.

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

Object was out of source country before export laws and regulations were put in place. The Carlos continues to conduct provenance research on this object and all of our collections.

Provenance Information

Unknown prior to its publication in the 1990 auction sale catalogue for Hapsburg Feldman S.A. Geneva, Gold, important ancient and ethic jewellery and work of art in precious metals, sale catalogue, May 14, 1990, lot 96; Purchased from the Hapsburg Feldman sale in 1990 by Jonathan Rosen, New York; Collection of Jonathon Rosen, New York, 1990 to 2015; given by Mr. Rosen to The Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2015

Exhibition Information

This object was on display in the Metropolitan Museum’s Southeast Asian Gallery since it was received as a loan from Jonathan Rosen in 2003 (L. 2003.25).

Publication Information

Hapsburg Feldman S.A. Geneva, Gold, important ancient and ethic jewellery and work of art in precious metals, sale catalogue, May 14, 1990, lot 96.

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 work was published in 1990 in connection with its sale at public auction in Geneva. It was placed on loan to the Metropolitan Museum in 2003 and has been in display since then.
This object is exceedingly rare and despite the loss of lower arms, evidences the artistic and technical skill of goldsmiths of this period. The object adds a valuable dimension to the understanding of small-scale personal devotional imagery in the early Buddhist art in mainland Southeast Asia.

Provenance Information

[By 1980, David Newman, London]; ca. 1981, purchased by Evelyn Kranes Kossak from David Newman; 1983-2015, on loan to the Museum by Evelyn Kranes Kossak (L.1983.16); acquired by the Museum in 2015, gift of Evelyn Kranes Kossak, The Kronos Collections.

Exhibition Information

This work has been on long-term loan to, and on display at, The Metropolitan Museum of Art since 1983.

Publication Information

Pittman, Holly. Art of the Bronze Age: Southeastern Iran, Western Central Asia, and the Indus Valley. MMA (New York, 1984), p. 26, 27, fig.6.

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

This work has provenance to around 1980 when the Museum considered acquiring it from David Newman. In 1983, it was offered as a loan to The Metropolitan Museum of Art and it has been displayed continuously since then in the Museum’s Ancient Near East galleries. The work has been published once in 1984. This is a fine and rare example of a copper alloy plate with repoussé and incised decoration of a recumbent humped bull (zebu), demonstrating aspects of the so-called Intercultural Style, most visible on stone carvings from eastern Iran and western Central Asia. This vessel represents the only example in the Museum’s collection from this period using this technique.

Provenance Information

Thought to have been excavated in 1928 or 1929 in Mapocun, Luoyang. Around 1935, Hung Bochuan [1]. Published in Chinese catalogue by Rong Geng, Shang Zhou Yiqi Tongkao in 1941, no. 658. 1997-2015, Bernadette Berger, purchased from Sotheby's New York, sale 6963, lot 7; 2016, DAM collection, bequest of the Estate of Bernadette Berger.

[1] Published in 1935 Shier Jia Jijin Tulu by Shang Chengzuo, no. 15.

Exhibition Information

N/A

Publication Information

- Shang Chengzuo, Shier Jia Jijin Tulu, 1935. Zun 15.
- Rong Geng, Shang Zhou Yiqi Tongkao, 1941, vol 1. p.343, no. 658
- Sotheby's New York 3/19/1997, sale catalogue 6963, lot 7.

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

Bernadette Berger promised her collection of Chinese objects to the DAM in 1997.

Provenance Information

-1967 collection of Farhadi & Anavian, New York;1967 collection of Arthur M. Sackler Collections, New York (purchased by Arthur M. Sackler from Farhadi & Anavian); 1967-2001 collection of Sackler Collection at Columbia University, New York (gift of Arthur M. Sackler Collections); 2001-2014 collection of The Arthur M. Sackler Foundation, New York, NY (returned from Columbia University and transferred to the Sackler Foundation); 2014 collection of Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY (gift of The Arthur M. Sackler Foundation)

Exhibition Information

Columbia University, New York, [Sackler Collection], included in various rotating displays between 1967 and 2001

Publication Information

none

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

Part of a larger gift from the Arthur M. Sackler Foundation that, according to correspondence and documentation on file, was acquired by Dr. Sackler from Farhadi & Anavian, New York, in 1967.

Provenance Information

-1967 collection of Farhadi & Anavian, New York;1967 collection of Arthur M. Sackler Collections, New York (purchased by Arthur M. Sackler from Farhadi & Anavian); 1967-2001 collection of Sackler Collection at Columbia University, New York (gift of Arthur M. Sackler Collections); 2001-2014 collection of The Arthur M. Sackler Foundation, New York, NY (returned from Columbia University and transferred to the Sackler Foundation); 2014 collection of Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY (gift of The Arthur M. Sackler Foundation)

Exhibition Information

Columbia University, New York, [Sackler Collection], included in various rotating displays between 1967 and 2001

Publication Information

none

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

Part of a larger gift from the Arthur M. Sackler Foundation that, according to correspondence and documentation on file, was acquired by Dr. Sackler from Farhadi & Anavian, New York, in 1967.

Provenance Information

-1967 collection of Farhadi & Anavian, New York;1967 collection of Arthur M. Sackler Collections, New York (purchased by Arthur M. Sackler from Farhadi & Anavian); 1967-2001 collection of Sackler Collection at Columbia University, New York (gift of Arthur M. Sackler Collections); 2001-2014 collection of The Arthur M. Sackler Foundation, New York, NY (returned from Columbia University and transferred to the Sackler Foundation); 2014 collection of Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY (gift of The Arthur M. Sackler Foundation)

Exhibition Information

Columbia University, New York, [Sackler Collection], included in various rotating displays between 1967 and 2001

Publication Information

none

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

Part of a larger gift from the Arthur M. Sackler Foundation that, according to correspondence and documentation on file, was acquired by Dr. Sackler from Farhadi & Anavian, New York, in 1967.

Provenance Information

-1967 collection of Farhadi & Anavian, New York;1967 collection of Arthur M. Sackler Collections, New York (purchased by Arthur M. Sackler from Farhadi & Anavian); 1967-2001 collection of Sackler Collection at Columbia University, New York (gift of Arthur M. Sackler Collections); 2001-2014 collection of The Arthur M. Sackler Foundation, New York, NY (returned from Columbia University and transferred to the Sackler Foundation); 2014 collection of Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY (gift of The Arthur M. Sackler Foundation)

Exhibition Information

Columbia University, New York, [Sackler Collection], included in various rotating displays between 1967 and 2001

Publication Information

none

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

Part of a larger gift from the Arthur M. Sackler Foundation that, according to correspondence and documentation on file, was acquired by Dr. Sackler from Farhadi & Anavian, New York, in 1967.

Provenance Information

-1967 collection of Farhadi & Anavian, New York;1967 collection of Arthur M. Sackler Collections, New York (purchased by Arthur M. Sackler from Farhadi & Anavian); 1967-2001 collection of Sackler Collection at Columbia University, New York (gift of Arthur M. Sackler Collections); 2001-2014 collection of The Arthur M. Sackler Foundation, New York, NY (returned from Columbia University and transferred to the Sackler Foundation); 2014 collection of Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY (gift of The Arthur M. Sackler Foundation)

Exhibition Information

Columbia University, New York, [Sackler Collection], included in various rotating displays between 1967 and 2001

Publication Information

none

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

Part of a larger gift from the Arthur M. Sackler Foundation that, according to correspondence and documentation on file, was acquired by Dr. Sackler from Farhadi & Anavian, New York, in 1967.