Siva as Mendicant

about 1800

Object PlaceSouthern India, India

Medium/TechniqueBronze; copper

Dimensions1.07 x .555 x .357

Credit LineMarianne Brimmer Fund

Accession number21.1830

On View

Not on view

ClassificationsSculpture

Collections

Asia

Provenance1921, sold in India by Sir William Beardsell (d. 1940), through Ananda K. Coomaraswamy (b. 1887 - d. 1947), to the MFA [1]. (Accession date: September 1, 1921)

Notes:
[1] The British art collector and businessman Sir William Beardsell (d. 1940) ran Messrs. W.A. Beardsell & Co., Ltd., based in Chennai, India, beginning in 1887.