id:			121665
accession number:	1942.149
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1942.149
updated:		2025-09-17 11:14:40.549000

Altarpiece with Buddha Enthroned, mid-1100s. Cambodia, found in Vietnam, near Ho Chi Minh City, Reign of Suryavarman II, Angkor Wat Period, 1st half 12th Century. Bronze; overall: 26.8 cm (10 9/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1942.149

title:				Altarpiece with Buddha Enthroned
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creation date:			mid-1100s
creation date earliest:		1140
creation date latest:		1160
current location:		243 Indian and Southeast Asian
creditline:			Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
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culture:	Cambodia, found in Vietnam, near Ho Chi Minh City, Reign of Suryavarman II, Angkor Wat Period, 1st half 12th Century
technique:	bronze
department:	Indian and Southeast Asian Art
collection:	Cambodian Art
type:		Sculpture
find spot:	
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measurements: Overall: 26.8 cm (10 9/16 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Indian and Indonesian Bronze
	opening date:   1955-11-02T05:00:00
	<i>Indian and Indonesian Bronze</i>. Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI (organizer) (November 2-30, 1955).

	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

* {'description': '<em>Buddhist Art. Detroit Institute of Arts, Twenty-Fourth Loan Exhibition, October, 1942</em>. Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI (October 1942).', 'opening_date': '1942-10-01T04:00:00Z'}

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PROVENANCE

	M. Bouasse Lebel
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	(Paul Mallon [1884–1975], Paris, France, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
	date: ?–1942
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1942–
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Lee, Sherman E. <em>Buddhist Art. Detroit Institute of Arts, Twenty-Fourth Loan Exhibition, October, 1942</em>. Detroit: Detroit Institute of Arts, 1942.
	page number: 	Mentioned: cat. no. 31, p. 26; Reproduced: cat. no. 31, p. 50
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	Lee, Sherman E. "A Cambodian Bronze Hoard." <em> Art in America</em> vol. 31, no. 2 (April 1943): 78–83.
	page number: 	Mentioned and Reproduced: fig. 3, pp. 80–81
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	Hollis, Howard. “A Cambodian Bronze Altarpiece.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 31, no. 7 (1944): 138–39.
	page number: 	Mentioned: pp. 138–39; Reproduced: cover
	url:		https://www.jstor.org/stable/25141145

	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. 790
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n141

	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. 242
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n266

	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. 242
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n266

	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. 319
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n339

	Bunker, Emma C., and Douglas Latchford. <em>Khmer Bronzes: New Interpretations of the Past</em>. Chicago: Art Media Resources, 2011.
	page number: 	Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 510, fig. 6.2
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