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Buddha Shakyamuni Seated in Meditation (Dhyanamudra)
Unattributed · Chola period, about 12th century
Provenance
Ownership history
- Sold to Mr. and Mrs. Robert Andrew Brown, Chicago, Ill., by Mr. William H. Wolff, William H. Wolff Incorporated, New York, September 1964; restricted gift of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Andrew Brown to the Art Institute of Chicago, September 16, 1964.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Literature
Published references
- The Essential Guide, rev. ed. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2013) p. 117.
- The Essential Guide, rev. ed. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2009) p. 103.
- The Essential Guide, Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2003-2004 pp. 88-9, and 1993, pp. 88-9.
- Pratapaditya Pal, "Sculptures from South India in Art Institute of Chicago", (Art Institute of Chicago: 1996), Museum Studies, Vol. 22, No. 1, p. 33, fig. 15.
- Vidya Dehejia, The Persistence of Buddhism in Tamil Nadu, A Pot-Pourri of Indian Art, (Marg Publications, Bombay, 1988) pp. 53-74 and p. 70, fig. 19.
- Recent Acquisitions of Asian Art by American Museums, Archives of Asian Art, 1965, p. 75, fig 3.
- Archives of the Chinese Art Society of America, vol. 19 (University of Hawai'i Press for the Asia Society, 1964), p. 75, fig. 3
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