God Vishnu’s Mount, Garuda, Standing with Hands in Gesture of Adoration (Anjalimudra)

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  • Title : God Vishnu’s Mount, Garuda, Standing with Hands in Gesture of Adoration (Anjalimudra)
  • Year : 1001–1100
  • Classification : Sculpture
  • Medium : Schist
  • Dimension : 51.5 x 18.1 x 8.0 cm (20 1/4 x 7 1/8 x 3 1/8 in.)
  • Accession No : Reference Number 2006.183
  • Country/ Geo-location : Nepal Kathmandu Valley
  • Period : 11th century or earlier
  • Collection : The Art Institute of Chicago
  • Credit Line : Gift of Marilynn B. Alsdorf
  • Status : Currently Off View
  • PROVENANCE : Sold to Mr. James W. Alsdorf (died 1990), Chicago, Ill., by Mr. Bruce Miller, Bruce Miller Antiquities, Kathmandu, Nepal, August 29, 1979; Loaned long-term to the Art Institute of Chicago by Mrs. James W. Alsdorf (née Marilynn Bruder), Chicago, Ill., March 5, 1999; Gifted to the Art Institute of Chicago by Mrs. James W. Alsdorf (née Marilynn Bruder), Chicago, Ill., March 9, 2006.
  • EXHIBITION HISTORY : Chicago, IL, Art Institute of Chicago, A Collecting Odyssey: Indian, Himalayan, and Southeast Asian Art from the James and Marilynn Alsdorf Collection, August 2–October 26, 1997.
  • PUBLICATION HISTORY : Art Institute of Chicago, Annual Report 2006- 2007 (Art Institute of Chicago, 2007), pp. 21-22. *Pal, Pratapaditya with contributions by Stephen Little, A Collecting Odyssey: Indian, Himalayan, and Southeast Asian Art from the James and Marilynn Alsdorf Collection (The Art Institute of Chicago in association with Thames and Hudson, 1997), p.352: 364 and plate 266.