Durga slaying the Buffalo Demon
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Object Details
- Previous custodian or owner
- D. Komter (C.L. Freer source)
- Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)
- Provenance
- To 1914
- D. Komter, Amsterdam, to 1914 [1]
- From 1914 to 1919
- Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from D. Komter in 1914 [2]
- From 1920
- Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]
- Notes:
- [1] See Original Miscellaneous List, S.I. 520, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.
- [2] See note 1.
- [3] The original deed of Charles Lang Freer's gift was signed in 1906. The collection was received in 1920 upon the completion of the Freer Gallery.
- Credit Line
- Gift of Charles Lang Freer
- 9th century
- Period
- Central Javanese Period
- Accession Number
- F1914.54
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- Sculpture
- Stone
- Medium
- Stone
- Dimensions
- H x W x D: 54.5 × 25.4 × 17 cm (21 7/16 × 10 × 6 11/16 in)
- Origin
- Java, Indonesia
- Related Online Resources
- F|S Southeast Asia
- Google Cultural Institute
- See more items in
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Collection
- On View
- Sackler Gallery 26b: Power in Southeast Asia
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
- Topic
- water buffalo
- Durga
- demon
- death
- Central Javanese period (600 - 799)
- Indonesia
- halo
- chakra
- Java
- Southeast Asian Art
- Record ID
- fsg_F1914.54
- Usage of Metadata (Object Detail Text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ye378f51052-d7aa-437e-8588-9fddaa575a0b
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