id:			119692
accession number:	1940.53
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url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1940.53
updated:		2025-02-09 00:35:39.483000

Head of Shiva, 1100s. Cambodia, Angkor, 12th century. Sandstone; with base: 42 cm (16 9/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1940.53

title:				Head of Shiva
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creation date:			1100s
creation date earliest:		1100
creation date latest:		1199
current location:		244 Indian and Southeast Asian
creditline:			Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
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culture:	Cambodia, Angkor, 12th century
technique:	sandstone
department:	Indian and Southeast Asian Art
collection:	Cambodian Art
type:		Sculpture
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measurements: with base: 42 cm (16 9/16 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Khmer Sculpture
	opening date:   1961-11-28T05:00:00
	<i>Khmer Sculpture</i>. The Asia Society Museum, New York, NY (organizer) (November 28, 1961-January 28, 1962).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	Brought from Cambodia by Louis Delaporte [1842–1925], Paris, France. After the explorer's death, it passed into the Allez collection
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	Lucien Allez, Paris, France
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	(Paul Mallon [1884–1975], New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
	date: ?–1940
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1940–
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Hollis, Howard. "A Cambodian Head." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art </em>28, no. 1 (January 1941): 4–5.
	page number: 	Reproduced: front cover; Mentioned: pp. 4–5
	url:		https://www.jstor.org/stable/25140898

	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. 787
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n140

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 241
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n265

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 241
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n265

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 318
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n338

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