Piece of Native Iron
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Place MadeCambodia, Southeast Asia
MediumIron
Dimensions4.9 x 10.7 cm (1 15/16 x 4 3/16 in.)
ClassificationsMaterials
Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Accession numberM17e70
eMuseum ID723655
Previous Number4C17e13-s
EmbARK ObjectID12179
TMS Source ID1317
Last Updated8/14/24
Status
Not on viewWeb CommentaryIsabella 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.
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.
BibliographyNotesAlan Chong and Noriko Murai. Journeys East: Isabella Stewart Gardner and Asia. Exh. cat. (Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 2009), pp. 256, 456 fig. 2.
ProvenanceNotesGift 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).
