Exhibition History:
The Art Institute of Chicago, "A Collecting Odyssey: Indian, Himalayan, and Southeast Asian Art from the James and Marilynn Alsdorf Collection" (August 2 – October 26, 1997).
The Art Institute of Chicago, Alsdorf Galleries of Indian, Southeast Asian, Himalayan and Islamic Art, December 2008 to present.

Published:
Pratapaditya Pal with contributions by Stephen Little, A Collecting Odyssey: Indian, Himalayan, and Southeast Asian Art (The Art Institute of Chicago, 1997) p. 314: 189 and plate p. 145.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Annual Report 2008-2009 (posted on AIC web site), p. 20

Provenance:
Purchased by Mr. James W. Alsdorf prior to April 24, 1990. Mrs. James W. Alsdorf donated the work to the Art Institute of Chicago in 2008.

Additional Information Statement:
This object was acquired by Mr. Alsdorf sometime before his death in 1990. Most likely he acquired it in 1985 from the gallery Trocadero Kenny & Higgins Asian Art, Inc. The work has been publicly displayed since 2008 with a prior exhibition in 1997. This is a rare object: a fragment -- the head only – probably from a seated four-armed figure in a cave at Gunung Kombeng, in the northeast of Kutai Province in Eastern Kalimantan, formerly Borneo. It is extremely rare to find such Buddhist sculptures from Borneo. It is part of a group of about 11 objects that may have been stored in this cave for safekeeping.