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Worshippers Giving Offerings to the Bodhi Tree

100s CE

Southern India, Andhra Pradesh, Amaravati, Satavahana Period

(c. 100 BC - c. AD 200)

Limestone

Overall: 80 x 57.1 cm (31 1/2 x 22 1/2 in.)

Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1970.43

Location

242A Ancient India

Description

The square railing surrounding the base of the trunk is the marker of a sacred tree. This tree has the distinctive heart-shaped leaves of the Bodhi tree (ficus religiosa), which is the type of tree under which the Buddha reached enlightenment. Each of the the worshippers holds a narrow-necked pot with lotus flowers emerging from the mouth. The lotus flowers are a symbol for water, so these figures are pouring offerings of pure water to the sacred tree.

Provenance

?-1970

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

1970-

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Citations

Lee, Sherman E. "The Year in Review for 1970." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 58, no. 2 (1971): 22-71. Reproduced: no. 131, p. 46; Mentioned: no. 131, p. 157 www.jstor.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 Sculpture from the Former Collections of Nasli M. Heeramaneck. Verona, Italy: A.N. Heeramaneck, 1979. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 7

Pal, Pratapaditya. A Pot-Pourri of Indian Art. Bombay: Marg Publications, 1988. Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 18, fig. 18

Cunningham, Michael R., Stanislaw J. Czuma, Anne E. Wardwell, and J. Keith Wilson. Masterworks of Asian Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1998. Reproduced: pp. 124-125

Brummett, Palmira Johnson. Civilization Past & Present. New York: Longman, 1999. Reproduced: p. 140

Guy, John. Tree & Serpent: Early Buddhist Art in India. Exh. cat. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2023. Mentioned: pp. 220–221; Reproduced: p. 220, cat. 105

Exhibition history

Year in Review: 1970. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 10-March 7, 1971).

Traditions and Revisions: Themes from the History of Sculpture. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 24-November 16, 1975).

Sacred India. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 5, 1985-January 12, 1986).

Streams and Mountains Without End: Asian Art and the Legacy of Sherman E. Lee at the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 27-August 23, 2009).

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