Object details
Accession number
M17e70
Primary Creator
Cambodian
Full title
Piece of Native Iron
Creation Date
Provenance
Gift from Mr. Hunter, the court interpreter and guide to Angkor at Phnom Penh, Cambodia to Isabella Stewart Gardner on 22 November 1883 (with a small standing figure of Vishnu, museum no. M17e12).
Dimensions
4.9 x 10.7 cm (1 15/16 x 4 3/16 in.)
Display Media
Iron
Web Commentary
Isabella Gardner was given two religious sculptures in Cambodia in 1883. She tucked a note into her Southeast Asian album that reads: “Vishnu from Angkor Thom. Little Vishnu and piece of native iron from the Camb. interpreter Mr. Hunter.” Her diary confirms that in Phnom Penh Hunter gave her a Vishnu (p. 256, presented November 22). The piece of iron is displayed in the same case in the Short Gallery of the Gardner Museum.
Source: “Objects from Cambodia and Java,” in Journeys East: Isabella Stewart Gardner and Asia, edited by Alan Chong and Noriko Murai (Boston: ISGM and Gutenberg Periscope, 2009): 456.
Permanent Gallery Location
Short Gallery
Bibliography
Alan Chong and Noriko Murai. Journeys East: Isabella Stewart Gardner and Asia. Exh. cat. (Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 2009), pp. 256, 456 fig. 2.
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