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Shiva, Parvati, and their son Skanda (Somaskandamurti)

Indian
Chola period
about 11th century A.D.
Object Place: Tamilnadu, Southern India

Medium/Technique Bronze
Dimensions 45.8 x 54.6 x 16.5 cm (18 1/16 x 21 1/2 x 6 1/2 in.)
Credit Line Archibald C. Coolidge Fund and Harriet Otis Cruft Fund
Accession Number40.470
CollectionsAsia
ClassificationsSculpture

ProvenanceSummer, 1940, sold at the Red Cross auction to Sir Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan (b. 1879 - d. 1951), London, for the MFA for $1000. (Accession Date: June 13, 1940)