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Collection Online as of December 5, 2023

Enthroned Buddha Preaching

700s–800s

Myanmar or Thailand

Copper alloy with gilding

Overall: 55.1 x 24.1 x 26 cm (21 11/16 x 9 1/2 x 10 1/4 in.)

Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund 1989.49

Location

243 Indian and Southeast Asian

Provenance
Reportedly found in Myanmar
?-1989
(Oriental Art, London, UK, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
1989-
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Citations
Czuma, Stanislaw J. "Notable Acquisitions." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 78, no. 3 (1991): 63-147. Reproduced and Mentioned: p. 120 www.jstor.org
Guy, John, et al. Lost Kingdoms: Hindu-Buddhist Sculpture of Early Southeast Asia. New York, NY: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2014. Reproduced: cat. no. 109, p. 198
Gengler, Matthew. “You Ask, We Answer.” Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine vol. 58. no. 2 (March/April 2018): 40. Reproduced and Mentioned: P. 40.
Exhibition history

Notable Acquisitions. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 7-September 15, 1991).

Lost Kingdoms of Early Southeast Asia: Hindu-Buddhist Sculpture 5th to 8th Century. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (organizer) (April 14-July 27, 2014).

Source URL: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1989.49