id:			117476
accession number:	1938.14
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1938.14
updated:		2024-03-26 01:57:34.091000

Monolithic Pillar, 600s–700s. Northern India, Mathura, early medieval period, 7th-8th century. Red sandstone; overall: 109.9 x 25.4 cm (43 1/4 x 10 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Edward L. Whittemore Fund 1938.14

title:				Monolithic Pillar
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creation date:			600s–700s
creation date earliest:		600
creation date latest:		799
current location:		243 Indian and Southeast Asian
creditline:			Edward L. Whittemore Fund
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culture:	Northern India, Mathura, early medieval period, 7th-8th century
technique:	red sandstone
department:	Indian and Southeast Asian Art
collection:	Indian Art
type:		Sculpture
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measurements: Overall: 109.9 x 25.4 cm (43 1/4 x 10 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		India's Art
	opening date:   1949-12-02T05:00:00
	<i>India's Art</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 2, 1949-January 22, 1950).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	(Heeramaneck Galleries, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
	date: ?–1938
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1938–
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook.</em> Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.
	page number: 	Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 751
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n135

	Czuma, Stanislaw. “Mathura Sculpture in the Cleveland Museum Collection.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>, vol. 64, no. 3, 1977, pp. 83–114.
	page number: 	Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 111, fig. 41
	url:		www.jstor.org/stable/25152680

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IMAGES

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