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THE JAMES AND MARILYNN ALSDORF COLLECTION
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A VERY RARE SILVER-INLAID BRONZE FIGURE OF GANESHA The present work belongs to a small corpus of bronzes which are believed
PROBABLY SWAT VALLEY, 7TH-8TH CENTURY to have been cast in the Swat Valley or the surrounding areas of the Hindu
6 in. (15.2 cm.) high Kush in the centuries after the desolation of the Buddhist institutions of
Gandhara by the Hephthalites in the fifth and sixth centuries. Such bronzes
$60,000-80,000
are distinguished by the dark, almost blackish color of the bronze alloy, and
by the languid and curvaceous proportions of the figures, a direct influence
PROVENANCE:
The collection of Julian Sherrier (1929-2012), London, by 1983. of the burgeoning Gupta style that originated in central India. Compare, for
Spink and Son, Ltd., London, 1983. example, with a bronze figure of Padmapani originally in the collection of
The James and Marilynn Alsdorf Collection, Chicago. Richard Ravenal, illustrated by U. von Schroeder in Indo-Tibetan Bronzes,
Hong Kong, 1981, p. 83, no. 5A. See, also, two additional bronze figures of
EXHIBITED:
The Art Institute of Chicago, “A Collecting Odyssey: Indian, Himalayan, and Padmapani, one originally in the Pan Asian Collection, illustrated by U. von
Southeast Asian Art from the James and Marilynn Alsdorf Collection,” 2 Schroeder in ibid., p. 83 and 91, nos. 5C and 9D. The presence of Buddhist
August-26 October 1997, no. 56. bronzes alongside images of Hindu deities, such as the present bronze or the
The Art Institute of Chicago, "Himalayas: An Aesthetic Adventure," 5 April - 17 famous Vaikuntha Vishnu in the collection of the Museum für Indische Kunst
August 2003; The Freer Gallery of Art & Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, 18 October illustrated by U. von Schroeder in ibid., p. 83, no. 5E, demonstrates that the
2003 - 11 January 2004, no 56.
practice of both religions was firmly established in the region despite the
Asia Society Museum,"The Arts of Kashmir," 1 October 2007 - 6 January 2008,
political and cultural strife of the Hunnic invasions.
no. 81.

LITERATURE:
P. Pal, A Collecting Odyssey, New York, 1997, pp. 50 and 284, no. 56.
P. Pal, Himalayas: an Aesthetic Adventure, Chicago, 2003, p. 98, no. 56.
P. Pal, The Arts of Kashmir, New York, p. 83, fig. 82.
Himalayan Art Resources, item no. 24653.
可能為斯瓦特地區 七/八世紀 銅嵌銀象頭神像
來源:
Julian Sherrier (1929-2012) 珍藏，倫敦，不晚於1983年。.
Spink and Son, Ltd.，倫敦，1983年。
詹姆斯及瑪麗蓮・阿爾斯多夫珍藏，芝加哥。
展覽:
芝加哥藝術博物館， 「A Collecting Odyssey: Indian, Himalayan, and
Southeast Asian Art from the James and Marilynn Alsdorf Collection」
，1997年8月2日至10月26日，編號56。
出版:
P. Pal，《A Collecting Odyssey》，紐約，1997年，頁50及284，編號56。
“喜馬拉雅藝術資源”（Himalayan Art Resources），編號24653。

Cover and illustration from P. Pal, A Collecting Odyssey, New York, 1997, p. 50. Padmapani; Hindukush, 6th century; bronze, 6 ¼ in. (16 cm.) high,
in U. von Schroeder in Indo-Tibetan Bronzes, Hong Kong, 1981,
p. 83, no. 5A.