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Lintel with Garuda

Lintel with Garuda

875–925
Location: not on view

Did You Know?

In the foliage below the Garuda are two tiny female figures, the one on the left badly damaged.

Description

Garuda is half man, half eagle, and the mount of Vishnu. His nose is beaklike, and his wings are carved in an exuberant foliate manner, like the swirling leaves that grow from the stem that arches across the middle of the panel. The vegetation yields female figures and jewels before it resolves itself into the heads of a cobra. Garuda is the natural enemy of the serpents, so he holds their tails in check. This decorative lintel is carved in the style of those made for a temple dedicated to the past kings of the Khmer territories. Derived from India’s use of purifying life-affirming imagery around doorways, this Garuda lintel has been rendered in a distinctively Khmer style.
  • ?–1967
    (Robert Rousset [1901–1982], New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
    1967–
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • “Year in Review.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 54, no. 10, 1967, pp. 302–346. Reproduced: p. 332, no. 170; Mentioned: p. 347, no. 170 25152183
    Marcus, Margaret F. “A Cambodian Sculptured Lintel.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 55, no. 10, 1968, pp. 321–330. Reproduced: p. 321; Mentioned: pp. 321-330 25152243
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. Reproduced: p. 242 archive.org
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. Reproduced: p. 318 archive.org
  • Year in Review: 1967. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 29-December 31, 1967).
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