Archive Item: A highly important early Chola Bronze Figure of Siva Nataraja

Tamil Nadu, South India
Circa 950-1000 A.D

Height 81 cm., 32 in.;
Width 48 cm., 18 7/8 in.;
Depth 24.5 cm., 9 5/8 in.

Provenance

Collection of Professor Samuel Eilenberg (1913-88), London and New York, late 1950s-1993
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 1993-2009

Exhibited

Masterpieces of Asian Art in American Collections, The Asia Society, New York, 1960, no.23b
The Vision of Kings: Art and Experience in India, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 1995-6, no.5

Published

Sickman, L., ed., Masterpieces of Asian Art in American Collections, New York, 1960, no.23b Safrani, S.H., 'Samuel Eilenberg', in Pal, P., ed., American Collectors of Asian Art, Marg, Mumbai, 1986, pp. 145-164, no. 3 Brand, M., The Vision of Kings: Art and Experience in India, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 1995, pp. 22-23, no. 5

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