Jambhala

? to Late 1980s
David Kai Chang, method of acquisition unknown [1]

Late 1980s
Philip Rudko, purchased from David Kai Chang in New York, NY [2]

From Late 1980s to 2020
Alice Kandell, purchased from Philip Rudko in the late-1980s in New York, NY [3]

From 2020
Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, gift of Alice Kandell, New York, NY [4]

Notes:

[1] According to Philip Rudko, interviewed by Joanna M. Gohmann on November 6, 2020, notes in accession file. Rudko believes that Chang was based in Shanghai, China.

[2] See interview referenced in note 1. Rudko explained that he purchased this object from Chang when he visited New York in the late 1980s; Chang mailed the object from China in a wooden crate to Rudko's home in New York.

Philip 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.

[3] See interview referenced in note 1. Alice 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] The object was formally accessioned into the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Collection on December 18, 2020. See Acquisition Consideration Form, object file.