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Durga as the Slayer of the Buffalo Demon
900s
Overall: 52 x 18.4 x 12.5 cm (20 1/2 x 7 1/4 x 4 15/16 in.); without tang: 44.8 cm (17 5/8 in.)
John L. Severance Fund 1996.27
Location: 244 Indian and Southeast Asian
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The figure wears a head-dress, kirita-makuta, a diadem tied in the back and pointed at top.Description
This depiction of Durga is rare and important, as it is a large-scale example of the goddess in bronze. Her conquest over the buffalo demon is indicated by its severed head at her feet. She stands four-armed and triumphant, with a wheel, conch shell, mace, and clod of earth in her hands.- ?–1996(Natasha Eilenberg, Cornwall, CT, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)1996–The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Asia House Gallery, and Daguan Zhou. Khmer Sculpture. New York: Asia House Gallery, 1961.Lee, Sherman E. Ancient Cambodian Sculpture. New York: Asia Society; distributed by New York Graphic Society, 1969.Cleveland Museum of Art, “Cleveland Museum of Art Acquires Rare Egyptian Sculpture, Old Master Painting, Important Cambodian Bronze,” June 13, 1996, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives. archive.orgCzuma, Stanislaw J. "Slayer of the Buffalo Demon." The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine April 1997: pp. 8–9. Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 8–9 archive.orgBunker, Emma C., and Douglas Latchford. Khmer Bronzes: New Interpretations of the Past. Chicago: Art Media Resources, 2011. Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 174, fig. 5.29Bassoul, Aziz. Splendour of Khmer Iconography: Ancient Cambodian Art of the 5th to the 13th Centuries in Major World Museums and Private Collections. Beirut: Cedar of Lebanon Editions, 2018. Mentioned and reproduced: pp. 58, no. 21
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