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Veneration of the Buddha as a Fiery Pillar

AD late 100s-200s

Southern India, Andhra Pradesh, Amaravati, Satavahana Period

(c. 100 BC - c. AD 200)

Limestone

Overall: 59 cm (23 1/4 in.)

Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1943.72

Location

242A Ancient India

Description

Lively, attenuated figures of celestial beings or nature divinities (yakshas) dance and praise the fiery pillar, which stands in for the presence of the Buddha. The top portion of the pillar surrounded by flames is at the bottom of this fragment, and it is topped with a motif that combines a lotus flower with a trident-shaped symbol often used to mark a sacred and auspicious presence.

Provenance

?-1943

(Heeramaneck Galleries, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)

1943-

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Citations

Ramachandran, T. N. “Nāgārjunikonda.” Memoirs of the Archæological Survey of India, 1928. no. 71, pp. 9, 25, 36

Coomaraswamy, Ananda K. Elements of Buddhist Iconography. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1935. Reproduced: pl. ii

Lee, Sherman E. Buddhist Art. Detroit Institute of Arts, Twenty-Fourth Loan Exhibition, October, 1942. Detroit: Detroit Institute of Arts, 1942. Mentioned and Reproduced: no. 5, p. 21

Hollis, Howard. “A Relief from Amarāvati.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 32, no. 1, 1945, pp. 7–8, 11. Mentioned: pp. 7–8; Reproduced: p. 11 www.jstor.org

Barrett, Douglas E. Sculptures from Amaravati in the British Museum. London: Trustees of the British Museum, 1954.

Ramachandra Rao, P. R. The Art of Nāgārjunikonda. Madras: Rachana, 1956.

The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 746 archive.org

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. Reproduced: p. 230 archive.org

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. Reproduced: p. 230 archive.org

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. Reproduced: p. 290 archive.org

Heeramaneck, Alice N. Masterpieces of Indian Painting: From the Former Collections of Nasli M. Heeramaneck. Verona, Italy: A.N. Heeramaneck, 1984. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 8

Ghose, Rajeshwari, Puay-peng Ho, and Chuntang Yang. Fa xiang chuan zhen: gu dai fo jiao yi shu [法相傳真 : 古代佛教兿術; In the footsteps of the Buddha: an iconic journey from India to China]. Hong Kong: Xianggang da xue mei shu bo wu guan, 1998. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 2, p. 143

Exhibition history

Images of Enlightenment: Gems from Buddhist Art of Asia. Art Museum, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (September 26-December 15, 1998).

Tree and Serpent: The Evolution of Early Buddhist Art in India. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (organizer) (July 23-November 13, 2023).

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