The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of December 22, 2025
Celestial dancers, folio 146 (recto) from the “Devasano Pada Bhandar” Kalpa-sutra
c. 1475
Overall: 11.2 x 26 cm (4 7/16 x 10 1/4 in.)
Location: Not on view
Description
This page is from one of the most lavishly illuminated manuscripts, named after the temple library in Ahmedabad, India, that holds the largest number of pages. The female figures in the margins represent music and dance that are part of a suite of adornments fitting for a sacred text.During the early 1400s, artists in western India became increasingly exposed to art from Western Asia and Iran, from which they learned techniques of painting in gold and creating symmetrical interlocking border designs and arabesque motifs.
- The Catherine and Ralph Benkaim Collection, Los Angeles, CA
- Text and Image in Southern Asia. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 26, 2022-March 5, 2023).
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Source URL:
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/18.2014.b