figure;
sculpture
- Museum number
- 1880.80
- Description
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Buddha. Standing figure of the Buddha carved in a dark grey sandstone; he is shown in varadamudrā with a devotee kneeling at his feet; inscribed round the halo and on the base.
- Production date
- 9thC
- Dimensions
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Height: 165 centimetres
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Weight: 565 kilograms
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Width: 75 centimetres
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Depth: 31 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The inscribed number K1 on the piece added by Markham Kittoe.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2012 23 Oct- 2013 03 Feb, Petit Palais, Paris, 'Dieu(x) - Modes d'Emploi'
2007, 26 Jul-18 Nov, Barcelona, CaixaForum, L'Escultura en els Temples Indis. L'Art de Devocio.
?1995 - 2007, ?Jan - Jul, London, BM, GNorthStr, permanent display
- Acquisition date
- 1880
- Acquisition notes
- Collected by Maj Kittoe at Kurkihar in 1848. Mentioned in John Anderson, Catalogue and Hand-Book of the Archaeological Collections in the Indian Museum (Calcutta, 1883): 72.
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- 1880.80
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: K1 (See Anderson, IM Catalogue, p. 72)
