Purchased from Spink & Son by The Jina Collection before 1994. Purchased by The Metropolitan Museum of Art from Carlton Rochell, Ltd. in 2008.

PUBLICATION AND EXHIBITION HISTORY: The work was published by Spink & Son in London in 1982. The work was on loan to, and exhibited at, the Smithsonian's Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery from 1994 to 2000 with interruption to feature in the touring exhibition, The Peaceful Liberators: Jain Art from India, which was exhibited at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art from November 6, 1994 to January 22 1995, the Kimbell Art Museum from March 5 to May 28, 1995, the New Orleans Museum of Art from July 15 to September 17, 1995 and the Victoria and Albert Museum, November 2, 1995 to January 21, 1996. The work was published in the catalogue for the Peaceful Liberators exhibition: Pal, P. (ed.), The Peaceful Liberators: Jain Art from India, New York: Thames and Hudson, 1994, pg. 142. The work was published in Peter Marks Gallery, The Jina Collection, 2001, New York, fig. 2.

REASON FOR ACQUISITION AS AN EXCEPTION TO THE 1970 RULE: This work has provenance established to at least 1982. The work has been exhibited widely and published three times. The work extends the chronology of early medieval Jain art that The Metropolitan Museum of Art can present by several centuries with an example of exceptional aesthetic standard.