Object Information
Accession Number:
2015.505
Object Title:
Woman Riding Two Brahman Bulls
Measurements:
H. 5 1/8 in. (13 cm)
Creation Date:
2000–1750 B.C.
Credit Line:
Gift of Jonathan and Jeannette Rosen, 2015
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Provenance Information:
With Samuel Eilenberg, New York, by 1991, when it was placed on loan to The Metropolitan Museum of Art; acquired from Mr. Eilenberg by Jonathan Rosen, New York, in 1993; it has been consistently displayed in the permanent galleries from 1991 through 2015; gift of Jonathan Rosen to The Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2015.
Exhibition Information:
This work has been on long-term loan to, and on display at, The Metropolitan Museum of Art since 1991.
Publication Information:
Martin Lerner and Steve Kossak, The Lotus Trascendent – Indian and Southeast Asian Art from the Samuel Eilenbeg Collection, New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Abrams, 1991: 46-37.
Section of the AAMD Guidelines relied upon for the exception to 1970:
Gift or bequest expected or on loan prior to 2008
Explain why the object fits the exception set forth above:
This work has provenance to at least 1991 when Samuel Eilenberg offered it as a loan to The Metropolitan Museum of Art and it has been displayed continuously since then in the Museum’s galleries. The work has been published once in 1991. This exceedingly rare bronze figure is the oldest bronze object in the Museum’s Indian collections. It is a rare survivor of the early bronze culture associated with the Harappan civilization. This work represents a little understood aspect of early bronze culture in proto-historic India and adds to our understanding of early Brahamanical art in early northern India.