Description
Although the evidence was lost when the back was damaged, in all likelihood this animated head came from a naga-protected Buddha.
Conservation
Date
Description
Narrative
5/06/1992
Examination
examined for condition
5/06/1992
Treatment
cleaned; other
5/06/1992
Treatment
other
7/18/1994
Examination
examined for condition
Exhibitions
Unearthly Elegance: Buddhist Art from the Griswold Collection. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1995.
Provenance
Lopburi, Thailand; Alexander B. Griswold, Monkton, April 1946, [presented to the Breezewood Foundation, December 1960, inv. no. 459]; Walters Art Museum, 1992, by bequest.
