Description
The proportions of this striking image contribute to its elegance. It belongs to a strain of Tibetan art in which Nepalese influences- or actual Nepalese craftsmen- were an important element.
Exhibitions
Desire and Devotion: Art from India, Nepal, and Tibet in the John and Berthe Ford Collection. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore; Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara; Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque; Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham. 2001-2003.
Provenance
Ian Alsop, New York and Santa Fe [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; John and Berthe Ford, Baltimore, March 25, 1997, by purchase.