Buddha's Descent from the Trayastrimsas Heaven

Gandharan
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Buddha's Descent from the Trayastrimsas Heaven

ca. 200

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Gandharan

Unknown

Schist

Overall: 46 inches (116.8 cm)

Sculpture

Asian Art

City of Detroit Purchase

25.63

This work is in the public domain.

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Provenance

found at (Pishawar County, North of India). (Hagop Kevorkian)

1925-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Eastman, Alvan C. "A Votive Tablet from Gandhara," Art in America, vol. 14, no. 1 (1925).

Coomaraswamy, Ananda K. History of Indian and Indonesian Art. New York, 1927, pl. 25, no. 91.

Buddhist Art. Exh. cat., DIA 24th Annual Loan Exhibition. Detroit, October 1942.

Indian Buddhist Sculpture from American Collections. Exh. cat., J. B. Speed Museum. Louisville, February 26-March 31, 1968, no. 24.

DIA Handbook. 1971, p. 59.

Bulletin of the DIA 50, no. 2 (1971): (back cover ill. only).

Koizumi, Yoshihide. "Descent from the Trayastrimsa Heaven in Gandhara Art," Museum. Tokyo National Museum, October 2005.

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Gandharan, Buddha's Descent from the Trayastrimsas Heaven, ca. 200, schist. Detroit Institute of Arts, City of Detroit Purchase, 25.63.

Buddha's Descent from the Trayastrimsas Heaven
Buddha's Descent from the Trayastrimsas Heaven