Buddha Shakyamuni Seated in Meditation (Dhyanamudra) by an unidentified artist
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Buddha Shakyamuni Seated in Meditation (Dhyanamudra)

Unattributed · Chola period, about 12th century

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. 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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