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Buddha's Descent from the Trayastrimsas Heaven
ca. 200
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Gandharan
Unknown
Schist
Overall: 46 inches (116.8 cm)
Sculpture
Asian Art
City of Detroit Purchase
25.63
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Provenance
found at (Pishawar County, North of India). (Hagop Kevorkian)
1925-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Eastman, Alvan C. "A Votive Tablet from Gandhara," Art in America, vol. 14, no. 1 (1925).
Coomaraswamy, Ananda K. History of Indian and Indonesian Art. New York, 1927, pl. 25, no. 91.
Buddhist Art. Exh. cat., DIA 24th Annual Loan Exhibition. Detroit, October 1942.
Indian Buddhist Sculpture from American Collections. Exh. cat., J. B. Speed Museum. Louisville, February 26-March 31, 1968, no. 24.
DIA Handbook. 1971, p. 59.
Bulletin of the DIA 50, no. 2 (1971): (back cover ill. only).
Koizumi, Yoshihide. "Descent from the Trayastrimsa Heaven in Gandhara Art," Museum. Tokyo National Museum, October 2005.
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Gandharan, Buddha's Descent from the Trayastrimsas Heaven, ca. 200, schist. Detroit Institute of Arts, City of Detroit Purchase, 25.63.
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