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accession number: 1930.328
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Foreigners and Non-Buddhists Drink, Dance, and Play Music, from a Buddhist Stupa Site, c. 100 CE. Pakistan, Gandhara, Buner area, early Kushan period. Schist; overall: 49.6 x 150.5 cm (19 1/2 x 59 1/4 in.); first section: 17.1 x 44.5 cm (6 3/4 x 17 1/2 in.); second section: 16.5 x 53 cm (6 1/2 x 20 7/8 in.); third section: 16 x 53 cm (6 5/16 x 20 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dudley P. Allen Fund, 1930.328
title: Foreigners and Non-Buddhists Drink, Dance, and Play Music, from a Buddhist Stupa Site
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creation date: c. 100 CE
creation date earliest: 1
creation date latest: 150
current location: 242A Ancient India
creditline: Dudley P. Allen Fund
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culture: Pakistan, Gandhara, Buner area, early Kushan period
technique: schist
department: Indian and Southeast Asian Art
collection: Indian Art - Kushan, Gandhara
type: Sculpture
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measurements: Overall: 49.6 x 150.5 cm (19 1/2 x 59 1/4 in.); First Section: 17.1 x 44.5 cm (6 3/4 x 17 1/2 in.); Second Section: 16.5 x 53 cm (6 1/2 x 20 7/8 in.); Third Section: 16 x 53 cm (6 5/16 x 20 7/8 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Exhibition of the Month: Music in Art
opening date: 1945-10-02T05:00:00
Exhibition of the Month: Music in Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 2, 1945-February 4, 1946).
title: India's Art
opening date: 1949-12-02T05:00:00
India's Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 2, 1949-January 22, 1950).
title: Kushan Sculpture: Images from Early India
opening date: 1985-11-13T05:00:00
Kushan Sculpture: Images from Early India. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 13, 1985-January 5, 1986).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
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PROVENANCE
(Spink & Son, Ltd., London, UK, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
date: ?–1930
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 1930–
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Hollis, Howard. C. “Indian Sculpture.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 17, no. 10, 1930, pp. 190–198.
page number: Mentioned: pp. 190–193; Reproduced: p. 197
url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25137340
Stites, Raymond S. The Arts and Man. New York: Whittlesey House, 1940.
page number: Reproduced: fig. 416b, p. 501
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Rowland, Benjamin. “Gandhara, Rome and Mathura: The Early Relief Style.” Archives of the Chinese Art Society of America, vol. 10, 1956, pp. 8–17.
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: fig. 1, p. 10
url: www.jstor.org/stable/20066979
Lyons, Islay, and Harald Ingholt. Gandhāran Art in Pakistan. [New York]: Pantheon Books, 1957.
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 26, 160, pl. IV, no. 1
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 740
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n134
The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.
page number: Reproduced: p. 228
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n252
Rosenfield, John M. The Dynastic Arts of the Kushans. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1967.
page number: Reproduced: fig. 58
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.
page number: Reproduced: p. 228
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n252
Fabri, Charles Louis. Discovering Indian Sculpture: A Brief History. New Delhi: Affiliated East-West Press, 1970.
page number: Mentioned: p. 45; Reproduced: pl. 19, p. 31
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
page number: Reproduced: p. 287
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n307
Goldman, Bernard. “Parthians at Gandhāra.” East and West, vol. 28, no. 1/4, 1978, pp. 189–202.
page number: Reproduced: fig. 1, between pp. 200–201
url: www.jstor.org/stable/29756456
Neils, Jenifer. “The Twain Shall Meet.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 72, no. 6, 1985, pp. 326–359.
page number: Reproduced: p. 335, figs. 14–15
url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25159914
Neils, Jenifer. “The Twain Shall Meet.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 72, no. 6 (October 1985): 326–359.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 335, figs. 14-15
url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25159914
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.
page number: Mentioned: pp. 172–174; Reproduced: cat. no. 87, p. 173
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1991.
page number: Reproduced: p. 16
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1991/page/n31
Masselos, Jim, Jackie Menzies, Pratapaditya Pal, and Reis Wenger Flora. Dancing to the Flute: Music and Dance in Indian Art. Sydney, Australia: Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1997.
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 50a, p. 107
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Kurita, Isao 栗田功. Gandhāran art [ガンダ-ラ美術 = Gandāra bijutsu]. Vol. 2. The world of the Buddha [佛陀の世界 = Budda no sekai] Tōkyō: Nigensha, 2003.
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 186, figs. 534 and 535
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Stewart, Peter. “The Gandhara Connection: Rome and the Art of Asia." Antiqvvs 2, i. 1 (January 2020): 33–39.
page number: Reproduced: p. 38
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