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Stone figure; Ganesha seated
Stone figure; Ganesha seated

Stone figure; Ganesha seated

Dateca. 13th century
Object number34.67
ProvenanceCollection of Horace Geoffrey (H.G.) Quaritch Wales (1900-1981), England; [Gump's, San Francisco]; purchased from gallery by Seattle Art Museum (Eugene Fuller Memorial Collection), November 26, 1934
Exhibition HistoryLos Angeles, California, Los Angeles County Museum, Art of Greater India, 1950. Cat. no. 155, p. 94. San Francisco, California, San Francisco Museum of Art, Art in Asia and the West, 1957. New York, New York, Asia Society, Khmer Sculpture, 1961-62. Cat. no. 28. Balboa, California, Fine Arts Patrons of Newport Harbor, Children's Show of Fine Arts, 1966.Published ReferencesHandbook, Seattle Art Museum: Selected Works from the Permanent Collections, Seattle: Seattle Art Museum, 1951; reproduced p. 42. Engagement Calendar, Seattle: Seattle Art Museum Guild, 1953; no. 5 Ross, Nancy Wilson. Three Ways of Asian Wisdom: Hinduism, Buddhism, Zen and the Significance for the West. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1966; p. 36, reproduced pl. 11. Trubner, Henry, et al., Asiatic Art in the Seattle Art Museum, Seattle: Seattle Art Museum, 1973; pp. 47,125, reproduced pl. 62.
Credit LineEugene Fuller Memorial Collection
Dimensions15 x 10 x 8 1/2 in. (38.1 x 25.4 x 21.59 cm)
MediumStone
Lokeshvara with raised arm
Cambodian
11th century
Object number: 34.68
Dancing Figure
Cambodian
12th century
Object number: 51.116
Seated Lohan figure
Chinese
960-1279
Object number: 33.1807
Black stone horse and rider
Chinese
early 7th - 10th century
Object number: 34.65
Photo: Paul Macapia
Babylonian
ca. 1300 B.C.
Object number: 48.45
Stone
Native American
Object number: 72.34
Naga head
Cambodian
early 14th century
Object number: 59.20
Four-Armed Vishnu (Vishnu Chaturhuja)
Cambodian
ca. late 8th century
Object number: 50.116
Head of Lokeshvara
Cambodian
ca. 12th century
Object number: 33.177
Uma
Cambodian
11th-12th century
Object number: 66.76
Head, probably of Vishnu
Cambodian
early 9th to early 10th century
Object number: 51.99