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Bacchanalian Scene

Bacchanalian Scene

1–100 CE
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Overall: 16.5 x 53 cm (6 1/2 x 20 7/8 in.)
Dudley P. Allen Fund 1930.328.2
Location: 242A Ancient India

Did You Know?

Silver striated vessels that were used as reliquaries are similar to the cup from which the second figure from the left drinks.

Description

The pleated garments and crowns of laurels suggest that these six figures were intended to appear like Greco-Roman people from the Mediterranean world. The male figure at the far right carries a skin, presumably full of wine, next to another bearded man holding a large footed vessel. A woman with a palm leaf on her arm—a sign of victory—gestures suggestively toward a man playing a drum. At the far left a figure drinks wine from a cup that the man at the far left may have just filled from his pitcher.
  • ?–1930
    (Spink & Son, Ltd., London, UK, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
    1930–
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Hollis, Howard. C. “Indian Sculpture.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 17, no. 10, 1930, pp. 190–198. Mentioned: pp. 190-93; Reproduced: p. 197 www.jstor.org
    Stites, Raymond S. The Arts and Man. New York: Whittlesey House, 1940. Reproduced: fig. 416b, p. 501
    Rowland, Benjamin. “Gandhara, Rome and Mathura: The Early Relief Style.” Archives of the Chinese Art Society of America, vol. 10, 1956, pp. 8–17. Mentioned and Reproduced: fig. 1, p. 10 20066979
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 740 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. 228 archive.org
    Rosenfield, John M. The Dynastic Arts of the Kushans. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1967. Reproduced: fig. 58
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. Reproduced: p. 228 archive.org
    Fabri, Charles Louis. Discovering Indian Sculpture: A Brief History. New Delhi: Affiliated East-West Press, 1970. Mentioned: p. 45; Reproduced: pl. 19, p. 31
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. Reproduced: p. 287 archive.org
    Neils, Jenifer. “The Twain Shall Meet.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 72, no. 6, 1985, pp. 326–359. Reproduced: p. 335, fig. 15 www.jstor.org
    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: pp. 172-174; Reproduced: cat. no. 87, p. 173
    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
    Kurita, Isao 栗田功. Gandhāran art [ガンダ-ラ美術 = Gandāra bijutsu]. Vol. 2. The world of the Buddha [佛陀の世界 = Budda no sekai] Tōkyō: Nigensha, 2003. Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 186, figs. 534 & 535
    Sengupta, Arputha Rani. Buddhist Jewels in Mortuary Cult: Magic Symbols. Delhi: Agam Kala Prakashan, 2019. Mentioned and reproduced: Vol. 1, P, 127, fig. 3.2
    Lyons, Islay, and Harald Ingholt. Gandhāran Art in Pakistan. [New York]: Pantheon Books, 1957. Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 26, 160, pl. IV, no. 1
  • Kushan Sculpture: Images from Early India. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 13, 1985-January 5, 1986).
  • {{cite web|title=Bacchanalian Scene|url=false|author=|year=1–100 CE|access-date=18 April 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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