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
Object number: 72.34
Chinese
late 5th - early 6th century
Object number: 46.224