佛像网

尺寸：25.4 x 12.7 cm
年代：清代 乾隆时期
质地：铜鎏金
风格：乾隆
来源：美国赛克勒美术馆
参阅：外部链接
鉴赏：
Eleven-headed Avalokiteshvara

Provenance
?-?
Possibly appeared at auction in New York, NY [1]
?-possibly 1980s
Ron Sharpe, possibly purchased at auction in New York, NY [2]
Possibly 1980s-at least 1994
Phillip J. Rudko, method of acquisition unknown from Ron Sharpe in New York, NY [3]
At least 1994-2018
Alice S. Kandell, method of acquisition unknown from Phillip J. Rudko in New York, NY [4]
From 2018
National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution, gift of Alice S. Kandell [5]

Notes:
[1] See “AK Shine Checklist,” undated (ca. 2009-2010), p. 8, copy in object file. See also “Collection E - Ron Sharpe of New York City” from “Alice Kandell Exhibition (March 2010) Provenance Draft Notes,” dated July 19, 2009, p. 6.
Ron Sharpe is a decorative wall painter and collector of Tibetan art in Greenwich Village, New York, NY. Sharpe’s collection includes small-scale sculptures from western Tibet, including the Spiti Valley and Kashmir. When Sharpe purchased objects at action in New York, NY, he mainly did so through Christie’s and Sotheby’s. He sometimes sold and/or bartered objects from central and eastern regions of Tibet to his friend and fellow collector, Phillip J. Rudko. The collector Alice S. Kandell also acquired objects from Sharpe at least during the late 1970s or early 1980s.
[2] See note 1.
Phillip J. Rudko, born just outside New York City in northern New Jersey, is a Russian Orthodox priest and art conservator, specializing in Tibetan objects. He works with the collector Alice Kandell as the curator of her personal collection. Rudko acquired objects through purchase and by trading his restoration services for Tibetan objects.
[3] See note 1.
Alice S. Kandell is a private collector, who for decades acquired hundreds of bronze sculptures, thangkas, textile banners, painted furniture and ritual implements. Her interest in Tibetan art and culture began during her college years, when she took the first of many trips to Sikkim, Tibet and Ladakh. Throughout her career as a child psychologist in New York, she continued to pursue her love of Tibetan Buddhist sacred art, traveling, collecting and documenting the art and culture of the region in two books of photography, “Sikkim: The Hidden Kingdom” (Doubleday) and “Mountaintop Kingdom: Sikkim” (Norton).
[4] See the original Deed of Gift, dated March 18, 2011, copy in object file for S2011.10.
The object is part of the museum’s Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Collection.
Research updated June 9, 2025

Collection
Arthur M. Sackler Collection

Exhibition History
The Tibetan Buddhist Shrine Room (March 12, 2022 - ongoing)
Encountering the Buddha: Art and Practice Across Asia (October 14, 2017 to February 6, 2022)
Doorway to an Enlightened World: The Tibetan Shrine from the Alice S. Kandell Collection (March 19 to November 27, 2016)
The Tibetan Shrine from the Alice S. Kandell Collection (March 13, 2010 to November 27, 2016)

Previous custodian or owner
Ron Sharpe (born 1954)
Phillip J. Rudko
Alice S. Kandell