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The most common representations of Durga depict the goddess slaying the buffalo demon, or together with Shiva, her husband. However, she is occasionally shown alone on her lion mount, as she is in this wooden sculpture. Her upper two hands clasp lotus buds, while her lower right hand rests on the handle of a mace. Wooden sculptures such as this one became especially popular in the 17th and 18th centuries in large parts of western India. This sculpture probably come from the coastal region of Maharashtra or Karnataka states.
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Frederick Asher, "Durga," in The Arts of India, South East Asia, and the Himalayas, Anne R. Bromberg (Dallas: Dallas Museum of Art; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2013), 105.
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EAS- adding this note as a trigger for the harvest. Durga tag still shown in Brain as a CONA tag rather than a DMA tag and it should have already harvested correctly. 12/21/2017
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1959: Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, gift of Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Marcus Foundation [1]
The main source for this provenance is the copy of the correspondence between Stanley Marcus and Jerry Bywaters dated December 19, 1959, in the Collections Records object file.
[1] The name of the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, founded in 1933, was changed to the Dallas Museum of Art in 1983.
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General Description
The most common representations of Durga depict the goddess slaying the buffalo demon, or together with Shiva, her husband. However, she is occasionally shown alone on her lion mount, as she is in this wooden sculpture. Her upper two hands clasp lotus buds, while her lower right hand rests on the handle of a mace. Wooden sculptures such as this one became especially popular in the 17th and 18th centuries in large parts of western India. This sculpture probably come from the coastal region of Maharashtra or Karnataka states.
Adapted from
Frederick Asher, "Durga," in The Arts of India, South East Asia, and the Himalayas, Anne R. Bromberg (Dallas: Dallas Museum of Art; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2013), 105.
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EAS- adding this note as a trigger for the harvest. Durga tag still shown in Brain as a CONA tag rather than a DMA tag and it should have already harvested correctly. 12/21/2017
Catalogue essays
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Geography
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PROVENANCE
1959: Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, gift of Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Marcus Foundation [1]
The main source for this provenance is the copy of the correspondence between Stanley Marcus and Jerry Bywaters dated December 19, 1959, in the Collections Records object file.
[1] The name of the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, founded in 1933, was changed to the Dallas Museum of Art in 1983.
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