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The Lokanatha Avalokiteshvara
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A LARGE AND IMPORTANT BLACK STONE FIGURE OF
LOKANATHA AVALOKITESHVARA
NORTHEASTERN INDIA, PALA PERIOD, 12TH CENTURY
58 in. (147.4 cm) high
Estimate on request
PROVENANCE
F.W. Bickel, Zurich, by 1922.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (acc.no. 22.381), 1922 – 1935.
H. Kevorkian, acquired from the above in 1935.
Art of the Near East and the Orient: Classical Antiquities: Property of the Kevorkian
Foundation, Parke-Bernet Galleries Inc, New York, 4-5 November 1966.
Important Asian and Japanese Works of Art, Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc, New York,
19 November 1975.
with Galleria Galatea, Turin, Italy.
Acquired by the present owner from the above in 1976.
PUBLISHED
A.K. Coomaraswamy, “Buddhist Sculpture: Recent Acquisitions,” Museum of
Fine Arts Bulletin, vol. 20, no. 120 (August 1922), p. 49, fg. 8
A.K. Coomaraswamy, Catalogue of the Indian Collections in the Museum of Fine
Arts, Boston, Part II: Sculpture, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1923, p. 78 and
plate XXXVI
印度東北部 帕拉時期 十二世紀 黑石世尊觀音像
A.K. Coomaraswamy, Catalogue of the Indian Collections in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston,
Part II: Sculpture, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1923, title page and p. 78, plate XXXVI
