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Miniature Votive Stupa

c. 1000s

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Eastern India, Bihar

Bronze with inlay of semiprecious stones

Overall: 29.2 cm (11 1/2 in.)

John L. Severance Fund 1982.132.b

Location

not on view

Provenance

?-1982

(Sara Tremayne, Ltd., London, UK, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)

1982-

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Citations

Lee, Sherman E. “Year in Review for 1982.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 70, no. 1, 1983, pp. 3–55. Mentioned: no. 119, p. 54; Reproduced: no. 119, p. 29 www.jstor.org

Huntington, Susan L., and John C. Huntington. Leaves from the Bodhi Tree: The Art of Pāla India (8th-12th Centuries) and Its International Legacy. Dayton, OH: Dayton Art Institute in association with the University of Washington Press, 1990. Mentioned and Reproduced: fig. 50, p. 178

Leidy, Denise Patry, and Robert A. F. Thurman. Mandala: The Architecture of Enlightenment. New York: Asia Society Galleries, 1997. Reproduced: cat. no. 5, p. 55

Exhibition history

Mandala: The Architecture of Enlightenment. The Asia Society Museum, New York, NY (organizer) (September 22, 1997-January 4, 1998).