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Seated Shakyamuni Buddha

c. AD 120

Northern India, Uttar Pradesh, Mathura, Kushan Period

Red mottled sandstone

Overall: 51.4 cm (20 1/4 in.)

Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1970.63

Location

242A Ancient India

Description

This early form of the Buddha image depicts him seated on an altar under the Bodhi tree. A coiled topknot of hair and elongated earlobes refer to his life as a prince when he wore a turban and heavy earrings. Behind his head is a solar disk, like a halo, and lions on the throne indicate the spreading of his teachings in all four directions.

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Provenance

?–1970

(Stendahl Art Gallery, LA, Los Angeles, CA, 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. Mentioned: no. 173, p. 71; Reproduced: no. 173, p. 46 www.jstor.org

Dwivedi, Vinod P. “Mathura Art in the Museums of the United States of America.” Journal of Indian Museums, 1973, pp. 25–26. Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 25-26, fig. 1

Czuma, Stanislaw. “Mathura Sculpture in the Cleveland Museum Collection.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 64, no. 3, 1977, pp. 83–114. Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 97, fig. 24; p. 98, fig. 25 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. 289 archive.org

Moore, Janet Gaylord. The Eastern Gate: An Invitation to the Arts of China and Japan. Cleveland: Collins, 1979. Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 34

Czuma, Stanislaw J., and Rekha Morris. Kushan Sculpture: Images from Early India. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1985. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 13, p. 66

Pal, Pratapaditya. A Pot-Pourri of Indian Art. Bombay: Marg Publications, 1988. Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 7, fig. 8

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1991. Reproduced: p. 15 archive.org

Exhibition history

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

Kushan Sculpture: Images from Early India. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 13, 1985-January 5, 1986).

Buddha. Tobu Museum of Art (April 11-June 28, 1998); Nara National Museum (July 11-August 30, 1998); Nagoya City Art Museum (September 9-October 11, 1998).

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