The Lotus Transcendent: Indian and Southeast Asian Art From the Samuel Eilenberg Collection

by Metropolitan Museum of Art

This volume documents an exhibit of a selection of the works from the Eilenberg collection, one of the most important collections of Indian and Southeast Asian art ever assembled. With 233 illustrations, including 28 in full color, bibliography and index. Fine condition in fine dust jacket.

245 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1991

About the author

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, (colloquially, the “Met”) is the largest art museum in the United States.

It was founded on April 13, 1870, "to be located in the City of New York, for the purpose of establishing and maintaining in said city a Museum and library of art, of encouraging and developing the study of the fine arts, and the application of arts to manufacture and practical life, of advancing the general knowledge of kindred subjects, and, to that end, of furnishing popular instruction."