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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
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
Object number: 72.34
Indian
5-6th century AD
Object number: SC2001.1037
Four armed Ganesha
Indian
ca. 9th century
Object number: 69.10
Dancing Ganesha (Hindu Elephant-God)
Nepalese
15th century
Object number: 52.52
Stone fragment with twelve buddhas
Chinese
6th - early 7th century
Object number: 95.76
Stone curved bead
Japanese
3rd-6th century
Object number: 50.132
Stone relief fragment;Buddha, Bodhisattvas, Apsaras
Chinese
late 5th - early 6th century
Object number: 46.224