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Standing Female Deity

Standing Female Deity

900s
stone
Overall: 89 cm (35 1/16 in.)
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1971.134
Location: 244 Indian and Southeast Asian

Description

This four-armed deity wears a sarong skirt, with its pleated end folded over the belt, as was the fashionable Bakheng style during this period. The incised lines beneath the breasts indicated folds of flesh as marks of beauty. This figure relates to the sculptures of the Phnom Bakheng, a temple dedicated to Shiva.
  • ?–1971
    (I. Kahane, Inc., Zürich, Switzerland, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
    1971–
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • 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
    Czuma, Stanislaw J. "Slayer of the Buffalo Demon." The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine April 1997: pp. 8–9. Reproduced: p. 9 archive.org
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https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1971.134