The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 16, 2024
Divine couple seated in a lotus blossom
early 1800s
Sheet: 13.3 x 9 cm (5 1/4 x 3 9/16 in.)
Bequest of Mrs. A. Dean Perry 1997.118
Location: not on view
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The five-part butter lamp at the lower right is lit with flames, and smoke wafts from the censer.Description
A gigantic, thousand-petaled lotus flower provides an intimate setting for the lovers. They sit on the seed pod of another full-blown lotus flower, which indicates their transcendent nature by elevating them from the mire of the earth.Shown with full face forward in all white, the four-armed male deity has the all-seeing third eye in his brow and holds only a manuscript. The red goddess on his lap grasps a lotus flower in one hand, which communicates her benign and peaceful nature. At the bottom are offerings of flowers, incense, oil lamps, and jeweled cups of pure water or liquor.
- ?–1997Mrs. A. Dean Perry [Helen Wade Greene Perry, 1911–1996], Cleveland, OH, bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art1997–The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Nature Supernatural (Indian Painting rotation). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 22, 2023-March 3, 2024).Supernatural Love - Indian Gallery 242 Rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (April 1-September 9, 2019).
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https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1997.118