Tantric Deities Hevajra and Nairatmya in Ritual Embrace (Yab-Yum)

CC0 Public Domain Designation

Arts of Asia

c. 1600

Nepal
Kathmandu Valley

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of Asia

Title: Tantric Deities Hevajra and Nairatmya in Ritual Embrace (Yab-Yum)
Place: Kathmandu Valley (Object made in)
Date: 1595–1605
Medium: Gilt bronze with pigments
Dimensions: 50.2 × 33 × 17.9 cm (19 3/4 × 13 × 7 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of the Alsdorf Foundation
Reference Number: 2010.574
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Pal, Pratapaditya with contributions by Stephen Little, A Collecting Odyssey: Indian, Himalayan, and Southeast Asian Art from the James and Marilynn Alsdorf Collection (The Art Institute of Chicago in association with Thames and Hudson, 1997), p. 315: 196 and plate p. 150.
Pal, Pratapaditya. 1997, “May the Immeasurable Wealth of Your Dance Fill My Consciousness: Dancing Deities of India,” Orientations 28,7 (July-August), p. 36, fig. 15.
Ghose, Rajeshwari. In the Footsteps of the Buddha: An Iconic Journey from India to China. (Hong Kong: University Museum and Art Gallery, The University of Hong Kong, 1998) Plate 54.

Hong Kong, University Art Gallery, In the Footsteps of the Buddha, Sept. 25- Dec.15, 1998.

Sold to Mr. James W. Alsdorf (died 1990), Chicago, Ill., by Mr. Konrad Seitz, Munich, Germany, September 26, 1974; Loaned long-term to the Art Institute of Chicago by Mr. James W. Alsdorf (died 1990), Chicago, Ill., June 26, 1978; Gifted to the Art Institute of Chicago by Mrs. James W. Alsdorf (née Marilynn Bruder), Chicago, Ill., December 31, 2010.

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