id:			123171
accession number:	1943.395
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1943.395
updated:		2024-03-26 01:57:56.092000

Adoring Attendant from a Buddhist Shrine, c. 300s–400s CE. Afghanistan, Gandhara, Kushan. Stucco; overall: 54.6 cm (21 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1943.395

title:				Adoring Attendant from a Buddhist Shrine
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series:				
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creation date:			c. 300s–400s CE
creation date earliest:		300
creation date latest:		499
current location:		242A Ancient India
creditline:			Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
copyright:			

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culture:	Afghanistan, Gandhara, Kushan
technique:	stucco
department:	Indian and Southeast Asian Art
collection:	Indian Art - Kushan, Gandhara
type:		Sculpture
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measurements: Overall: 54.6 cm (21 1/2 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Juxtapositions
	opening date:   1965-09-11T04:00:00
	<i>Juxtapositions</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (September 11-October 10, 1965).

	title:		Kushan Sculpture: Images from Early India
	opening date:   1985-11-13T05:00:00
	<i>Kushan Sculpture: Images from Early India</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 13, 1985-January 5, 1986).

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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': '1942-10-01T00:00:00'}

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PROVENANCE

	(Heeramaneck Galleries, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
	date: at least by 1942–43
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1943–
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Lee, Sherman E. <em>Buddhist Art</em>. Detroit Institute of Arts, Twenty-Fourth Loan Exhibition, October, 1942. Detroit: Detroit Institute of Arts, 1942.
	page number: 	Mentioned: cat. no. 12, p. 22; Reproduced: cat. no. 12, p. 42
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	Hollis, Howard. “Central Asian Stucco Sculptures.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>, vol. 32, no. 3, 1945, pp. 26–27.
	page number: 	Mentioned: pp. 26-27; Reproduced: unpaginated
	url:		https://www.jstor.org/stable/25141187

	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. 741
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n134

	Lee, Sherman E. <em>A History of Far Eastern Art</em>. New York: H.N. Abrams, 1964.
	page number: 	Reproduced: fig. 115, p. 103
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	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. 229
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n253

	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. 229
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n253

	Hartman, Joan M.  “New Oriental Galleries at the Cleveland Museum.” <em>Oriental Art</em> 16 (Autumn 1970): 282.
	page number: 	Reproduced: pl. 2
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	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. 288
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n308

	Heeramaneck, Alice N. <em>Masterpieces of Indian Painting: From the Former Collections of Nasli M. Heeramaneck</em>. Verona, Italy: A.N. Heeramaneck, 1984.
	page number: 	Reproduced: cat. no. 17
	url:		

	Lee, Sherman E. <em>A History of Far Eastern Art</em>. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1982.
	page number: 	Reproduced: fig. 126, p. 101
	url:		

	Czuma, Stanislaw J., and Rekha Morris. <em>Kushan Sculpture: Images from Early India</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1985.
	page number: 	Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 122, p. 218
	url:		

	Cunningham, Michael R., Stanislaw J. Czuma, Anne E. Wardwell, and J. Keith Wilson. <em>Masterworks of Asian Art</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1998.
	page number: 	Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 116-117
	url:		

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