The Sage Agastya Seated in Meditation on his Water Pot (Kumbha)

Details

  • Title : The Sage Agastya Seated in Meditation on his Water Pot (Kumbha)
  • Year : 1401–1500
  • Classification : Sculpture
  • Medium : Gilt bronze
  • Dimension : 12.2 x 9.3 x 4.7 cm (4 3/4 x 3 5/8 x 1 7/8 in.)
  • Accession No : 1974.236
  • Country/ Geo-location : Nepal
  • Period : 15th Century
  • Collection : The Art Institute of Chicago
  • Credit Line : Kate S. Buckingham Fund
  • Status : Currently Off View
  • PROVENANCE : Sold to the Art Institute by Mr. Marinos Costeletos, London, June 16, 1975.
  • PUBLICATION HISTORY : Kathryn H. Selig Brown, “Himalayan Gems: Nepalese and Tibetan Art” in Orientations: The Magazine for Collectors and Connoisseurs of Asian Art, Volume 42, No. 3, April 2011, pp. 43-49. *Carol Radcliffe Bolon, “Images of Agastya in Nepal,” Artibus Asiae, Vol. 51, No. 1/2 (1991), pp. 75-89.