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Collection Online as of April 18, 2024

Walking Buddha

Walking Buddha

700s
ivory
Overall: 4.8 x 2.8 x 0.6 cm (1 7/8 x 1 1/8 x 1/4 in.)
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1962.167
Location: 237 Himalayan

Description

Small, delicately carved ivory plaques were set into wooden shrines, carved with architectural motifs. This sculpted plaque would have once flanked a central seated Buddha, with a similar standing or walking Buddha on the opposite side. The pleated garment folds derived from Greco-Roman styles adopted in the ancient region of Gandhara, west of Kashmir, where this sculpture was made.
  • ?–1962
    (Heeramaneck Galleries, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
    1962–
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Tardy. Les ivoires; évolution décorative du Ier siècle à nos jours. Paris: Tardy, 1972. Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 188, fig. 3
    Czuma, Stanislaw. "A Unique Addition to the School of Kashmiri Ivories." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 75, no. 8 (October 1988): 298–319. Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 314, fig. 24 www.jstor.org
  • Collecting Paradise: Buddhist Art of Kashmir and Its Legacies. Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Evanston, IL (organizer) (January 13-April 19, 2015); Rubin Museum of Art, New York, NY (May 22-October 19, 2015).
    Year in Review - 1962. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 24-November 25, 1962).
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