The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of April 19, 2024

Chair Leg

Chair Leg

300s CE
ivory
Overall: 43.8 cm (17 1/4 in.)
Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund 1975.103.1
Location: not on view

Description

This ivory carving was made to sheath wooden furniture made in India for trade along the Silk Road, which stretched from Rome to China. Indian ivory-faced furnishings--along with lacquer boxes from China and painted glass from Rome--were found in an extraordinary deposit of luxury goods at a site called Begram. The wood on which the ivory and lacquer were affixed has long disintegrated, and only the small pieces remain.
  • ?–1975
    (Spink & Son, Ltd., London, England, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
    1975–
    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. 161, fig. 1-3
    Lee, Sherman E. "The Year in Review for 1975." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 63, no. 2 (1976): 31-71. Mentioned: no. 169, p. 71; Reproduced: no. 169, p. 52 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 and Reproduced: cat. no. 49, p. 121
  • Tree and Serpent: The Evolution of Early Buddhist Art in India. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (organizer) (July 17-November 13, 2023).
    Kushan Sculpture: Images from Early India. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 13, 1985-January 5, 1986).
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