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Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara
Khmer · Angkor period, late 12th–early 13th century
Provenance
Ownership history
- With Jean Moura (1827‒1885), Moissac, France, by 1879; by descent to his wife, Elisabeth Coralie Moura (1829‒1922; born Elisabeth Coralie Chantot), Moissac, France, 1885 [Foucher 1913]. With Ching Tsai Loo (C.T. Loo, 1880‒1957), Paris, France, by 1922; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1924.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Literature
Published references
- Foucher, Alfred, « Matériaux pour servir à l’étude de l’art khmèr. III. La Collection Moura », <em>Bulletin de la Commission archéologique de l’Indochine</em> (1913), 96–97, pl. IV, fig. 1.
- C.F.K. [Charles Fabens Kelley], “Cambodian Sculptures”, <em>Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago</em>, vol. 18, no. 4 (1924), 43, fig. 3.
- Coomaraswamy, Ananda K., « Catalogue des pièces khmères conservées dans les musées de l'Amérique du Nord », <em>Art et archéologie khmers</em>, tome 2, fascicule 2 (1925), 239.
- Kelley, Charles Fabens, <em>Handbook of the Department of Oriental Art</em> (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1933), 60, fig. 78.
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