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accession number: 1935.146
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Buddha Calling on Earth to Witness, 800s. Northeastern India, Bihar, Tetravan, Pala Period (750-1197). Chloritic schist; overall: 94 cm (37 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dudley P. Allen Fund 1935.146
title: Buddha Calling on Earth to Witness
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creation date: 800s
creation date earliest: 800
creation date latest: 899
current location: 243 Indian and Southeast Asian
creditline: Dudley P. Allen Fund
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culture: Northeastern India, Bihar, Tetravan, Pala Period (750-1197)
technique: chloritic schist
department: Indian and Southeast Asian Art
collection: Indian Art
type: Sculpture
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CREATORS
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measurements: Overall: 94 cm (37 in.)
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inscriptions:
inscription: Ye dharmā hetu prabhavā tesā hetu tathāgata hya vadat...
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition
opening date: 1936-06-26T04:00:00
The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 26-October 4, 1936).
title: The Silver Jubilee Exhibition
opening date: 1941-06-23T04:00:00
The Silver Jubilee Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 23-September 28, 1941).
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: 35th Anniversary Exhibition
opening date: 1951-06-20T04:00:00
35th Anniversary Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 20-September 30, 1951).
title: Art: The International Language
opening date: 1956-10-02T04:00:00
Art: The International Language. The Cleveland Museum of Art (October 2-November 4, 1956).
title: Sacred India
opening date: 1985-11-05T05:00:00
Sacred India. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 5, 1985-January 12, 1986).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* {'description': 'Buddhist Art. Detroit Institute of Arts, Twenty-Fourth Loan Exhibition, October, 1942. Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI (October 1942).', 'opening_date': '1942-10-01T04:00:00Z'}
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PROVENANCE
(Heeramaneck Galleries, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
date: ?-1935
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 1935-
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Eastman, Alvan C. Catalog of the Heeramaneck Collection of Early Indian Sculptures, Paintings, Bronzes and Textiles. New York: Heeramaneck Galleries, 1934.
page number: Mentioned: cat. no. 14, pp. 10 and 29
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Hollis, Howard C. "An Indian Buddhist Stele." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 24, no. 9 (1937): 135-37.
page number: Mentioned: pp. 135–137
url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25137872
Lee, Sherman E. Buddhist Art. Detroit Institute of Arts, Twenty-Fourth Loan Exhibition, October, 1942. Detroit: Detroit Institute of Arts, 1942.
page number: Mentioned: cat. no. 19, p. 23; Reproduced: cat. no. 19, p. 46
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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. 753
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n136
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. 232
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n256
Marcus, Margaret F. “Sculptures from Bihar and Bengal.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 54, no. 8, 1967, pp. 240–262.
page number: Mentioned: p. 246, fig. 5; Reproduced: pp. 247, 261
url: www.jstor.org/stable/25152173
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. 232
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n256
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. 294
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n314
Bly, Linda. An Important 12th Century Tibetan Thanka in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. [Place of publication not identified]: [publisher not identified], 1991.
page number: Reproduced: illustration 2
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Connell, Timothy C., and Jackson J. Spielvogel. World Art Transparencies. Cincinnati: West Educational Pub, 1998.
page number: Reproduced: Acetate 27
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Fichner-Rathus, Lois. Understanding Art. Fifth edition. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1998.
page number: Reproduced: no. 18- 29, p. 486
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Cunningham, Michael R., Stanislaw J. Czuma, Anne E. Wardwell, and J. Keith Wilson. Masterworks of Asian Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1998.
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 136-137
url:
Fichner-Rathus, Lois. Understanding Art. Sixth edition. Fort Worth: Harcourt College Publishers, 2001.
page number: Reproduced: fig. 20-28, p. 550
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