About the Artwork
Vishnu
ca. 1218
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Cambodian
Khmer
Copper alloy
Overall: 9 1/4 × 4 × 2 7/8 inches (23.5 × 10.2 × 7.3 cm) Including base: 10 3/4 × 4 × 3 7/8 inches (27.3 × 10.2 × 9.8 cm)
Sculpture
Asian Art
Founders Society Purchase, General Membership Fund
41.82
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
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Provenance
1919, one of seven bronze sculptures excavated together from a location between Bienhoa and Tuan, present-day Vietnam. by 1925?, M. Bouasse Lebel, Paris, France. (Paul Mallon [1884-1975], Paris, France)
1941-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Bulletin of the DIA 22, no. 3 (1942): p. 21.
Buddhist Art-Twenty Fourth Loan Exhibition. Exh. cat., DIA. Detroit, 1942, cat. no. 33.
Lee, Sherman E. "A Cambodian Bronze Hoard," Art in America 31 (April 1943): p. 78 (ill.).
Bunker, Emma C. “A Khmer Cache of Sacred Bronzes Found in Vietnam.” In Khmer Bronzes: New Interpretations of the Past, ed. Emma C. Bunker and Douglas Latchford. Chicago, 2011, pp. 509-512.
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Khmer, Cambodian, Vishnu, ca. 1218, copper alloy. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, General Membership Fund, 41.82.
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