Shiva as Vanquisher of the Three Cities (Shiva Tripuravijaya)

Title: Shiva as Vanquisher of the Three Cities (Shiva Tripuravijaya)

Period: Chola period

Date: ca. 1000–1020

Culture: India, Tamil Nadu

Medium: Copper alloy

Dimensions: H. 22 1/2 in. (57.2 cm); W. 10 3/4 in. (27.3 cm); D. 7 1/4 in. (18.4 cm)

Classification: Sculpture

Credit Line: Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace and The Vincent Astor Foundation Gifts, funds from various donors, Florence and Herbert Irving Acquisitions Fund for Asian Art, The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Foundation and Harris Brisbane Dick Funds, Mr. and Mrs. Richard L. Chilton Jr. Gift, Oscar L. Tang Fund for Asian Art, Fletcher Fund, Brooke Russell Astor Bequest, Florence and Herbert Irving Acquisitions Fund, Eliot and Wilson Nolen Gift, and Seymour Fund; Mrs. Stephen V. Harkness Fund, Bequests of Bernard M. Baruch and Mary Strong Shattuck, Gifts of George D. Pratt and Mrs. Lewis S. Wolff, from the Estate of Dorothea Wolff, and Rogers Fund, by exchange, 2018

Object Number: 2018.757

Dr. J. R. Belmont , Basel, Switzerland (until 1966); [ Robert H. Ellsworth American, New York, 1966–late 1960s, sold to Humann ]; Christian Humann , New York (late 1960s–d. 1981, to Ellsworth); [ Robert Hatfield Ellsworth [for search only] , New York, 1981–d. 2015, by bequest to Itoh ]; Keita Itoh , New York (2015–2018, sold to MMA through Carlton Rochell)

Los Angeles County Museum of Art. "The Sensuous Immortals: A Selection of Sculptures from the Pan-Asian Collection," October 25, 1977–January 15, 1978.

Herbert Härtel. Indische Kunst: [Ausstellung] 20. 1. - 13. 3., Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, 18. 5. - 31. 7., 1966. Exh. cat. Stuttgart: Württembergischer Kunstverein, 1966, p. 38, cat. no. 103.

Pal, Pratapaditya. The Sensuous Immortals: A Selection of Sculpture from the Pan-Asian Collection. Exh. cat. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, [1977], cat. no.67.

Dehejia, Vidya, Richard H. Davis, R. Nagaswamy, and Karen Pechlis-Prentiss. The Sensuous and the Sacred: Chola Bronzes from South India. Exh. cat. New York: American Federation of Arts, 2002, pp. 106–11.