Medallions and winged lions

2nd-3rd century

East Central Indian , Amaravati region

Limestone

17 5/8 x 8 3/8 x 2 in. (44.77 x 21.27 x 5.08 cm)

Overall h.: 19 1/4 in.

H. of base: 1 5/8 in.

Length of base: 8 7/8 in.

W. of base: 3 1/8 in.

Eugene Fuller Memorial Collection

51.95

Provenance: [C.T. Loo, New York]; purchased from gallery by Seattle Art Museum (Eugene Fuller Memorial Collection), February 14, 1951

Now on view at the Asian Art Museum

Resources

Exhibition HistoryPhoenix, Arizona, Phoenix Art Museum, The Image of Buddhist Asia, 1963-64.

Seattle, Washington, Seattle Asian Art Museum, Boundless: Stories of Asian Art, Feb. 8, 2020 - ongoing.

Published ReferencesTrubner, Henry, William J. Rathbun and C.A. Kaputa. "Asiatic Art in the Seattle Art Museum." Seattle: Seattle Art Museum, 1973, p. 90, no. 3

Video: The Splendour of Andhra Art. Hyderabad, India: Supreme Court of India, 2000

Website: World Corpus of Amaravati Sculpture. http://www.basas.org.uk/site/index.php/our_work/page/689aaf33-c326-4090-a60d-dc6950adffa5/

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