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PROPERTY OF AN IMPORTANT PRIVATE COLLECTOR
327
A LARGE AND IMPORTANT BRONZE FIGURE OF UMA
SOUTH INDIA, TAMIL NADU, CHOLA PERIOD, 13TH CENTURY
25º in. (64.1 cm.) high

$300,000-500,000

PROVENANCE
Collection of Mrs. Florence Sutherland Orr (1856-1948), acquired in Chennai
(now Madras), India.
Christie’s New York, 19 March 2013, lot 229.
EXHIBITED
D’Amour Museum of Fine Arts, Springfeld, Massachusetts, long-term loan
1935-2012 (acc. no. 04.35).

Photograph of the current lot and other bronzes for loan, from Mrs Sutherland Orr
to Mr John Clark, Director of the Springfeld Museum is Fine Arts, ca. 1935. Photo
courtesy of the D’Amour Museum of Fine Art, Springfeld, Massachusetts.