Panel with the god Shiva/Oesho and worshiper

By 1932, collection of Yamanaka & Co., Osaka; by 1993, Hirayama collection, Kamakura; by 1995, collection of Isao Kurita, Tokyo; acquired by the Museum in 2000, purchased from Isao Kurita, Tokyo.

"Sekai Kobijutsu Tenrankai [Antiques of the World exhibition]." Yamanaka Trading Co. Ltd. and Tokyo Art Club, Ueno Park, Tokyo, November 22-27, 1932.

“Glimpses of the Silk Road: Central Asia in the First Millennium.” The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, September 19, 2002–May 24, 2009.

Yamanaka Shōkai. 1932. Sekai kobijutsu tenrankai. Ōsaka: Yamanaka Shōkai, fig. 8.

Tanabe, Katsumi. 1993. The Mr. and Mrs. Hirayama collection. The Buddha and Buddhist Images along the Silk Road. The Institute of Silk Road Studies, Kamakura, cat. 87.

Carter, Martha L. 1995. "Oesho and Shiva." Bulletin of the Asia Institute 9, pp. 143-157.

Carter, Martha L. 1997. "Preliminary Notes on Four Painted Terracotta Panels." South Asian Archaeology 1995: proceedings of the 13th Conference of the European Association of South Asian Archaeologists, Cambridge, 5-9 July, 1995, edited by Raymond Allchin and Bridget Allchin. Oxford & IBH Publishing Co. Pvt. Ltd., pp. 573-588, Figure 3.

Aruz, Joan. 2000. "Votive panels." The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 58 (2), Recent Acquisitions: A Selection 1999-2000 (Autumn 2000), p. 15.

Metropolitan Museum of Art. 2000. "Departmental Accessions: Ancient Near East." Annual Report of the Trustees of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, No. 130 (Jul. 1,1999 - Jun. 30, 2000), p. 9.

Behrendt, Kurt A. 2007. The Art of Gandhara in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New Haven: Yale University Press, p. 84, note 40.

Shenkar, Michael. 2014. Intangible Spirits and Graven Images: the Iconography of Deities in the Pre-Islamic Iranian World. Magical and Religious Literature of Late Antiquity 4. Leiden: Brill, pp. 155-6, 335 fig. 148.

Galitz, Kathryn Calley. 2016. The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Masterpiece Paintings. New York: Rizzoli, p. 41, no. 40.

Falk, Harry. 2015-19. "Kushan Religion and Politics." Bulletin of the Asia Institute 29, pp. 25-7, fig. 21a.

Lerner, Judith A. 2018. “The Visual Culture of Greater Iran: Some Examples of Kushano-Sasanian Art.” In Persian Art: Image-making in Eurasia, edited by Yuka Kadoi. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, p. 2 and p. 15, note 7.