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Triad

Triad

early 900s
volcanic stone
Overall: 66 cm (26 in.)
John L. Severance Fund 1948.459
Location: 244 Indian and Southeast Asian

Description

This group has been linked to a temple dedicated to Shiva in Central Java. Its name, Loro Jonggrang, meaning "Slender Maiden," refers to the image of the warrior goddess Durga on the temple, which local legend links to the form of a princess cursed to be turned into stone. The highly porous stone is the distinctive material used to construct temples on the volcanic islands of Indonesia.
  • at least by 1942
    Aaron Vecht [1886–1965], Amsterdam, Netherlands
    ?-1948
    (Paul Mallon [1884-1975], Paris, France, and New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
    1948-
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Lee, Sherman E. Buddhist Art. Detroit Institute of Arts, Twenty-Fourth Loan Exhibition, October, 1942. Detroit: Detroit Institute of Arts, 1942. Mentioned: cat. no. 39, p. 27; Reproduced: cat. no. 39, p. 51
    Ward, William E. “A Hindu Sculpture from Java.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 39, no. 10, 1952, pp. 238–239. Mentioned: pp. 238–239 25141840
  • Buddhist Art. Detroit Institute of Arts, Twenty-Fourth Loan Exhibition, October, 1942. Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI (October 1942).
  • {{cite web|title=Triad|url=false|author=|year=early 900s|access-date=25 April 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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