id:			123438
accession number:	1943.661
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updated:		2025-02-09 01:01:49.346000

Naga (Serpent Divinity), 300s CE. India, Mathura, Kushan period. Sandstone; overall: 67.3 cm (26 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1943.661

title:				Naga (Serpent Divinity)
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creation date:			300s CE
creation date earliest:		300
creation date latest:		399
current location:		242A Ancient India
creditline:			Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
copyright:			

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culture:	India, Mathura, Kushan period
technique:	sandstone
department:	Indian and Southeast Asian Art
collection:	Indian Art - Kushan, Mathura
type:		Sculpture
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measurements: Overall: 67.3 cm (26 1/2 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* {'description': '<em>Kushan Sculpture: Images from Early India.</em> Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (November 13, 1985-January 15, 1986), Asia Society Galleries, New York, NY (February 13-April 6, 1986), and Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA (May 13-July 13, 1986).', 'opening_date': '1986-02-13T00:00:00'}

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PROVENANCE

	(Heeramaneck Galleries, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
	date: ?-1943
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1943-
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Codrington, Kenneth de Burgh, and William Rothenstein. <em>Ancient India from the Earliest Times to the Guptas with Notes on the Architecture and Sculpture of the Mediæval Period</em>. London: E. Benn, Limited, 1926.
	page number: 	Mentioned and Reproduced: pl. 22D
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	Hollis, Howard. “Three Indian Buddhist Sculptures.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>, vol. 31, no. 3, 1944, pp. 33–37.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 36
	url:		www.jstor.org/stable/25141113

	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. 748
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n135

	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

	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: 	Reproduced: p. 87, fig. 5
	url:		www.jstor.org/stable/25152680

	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

	Pal, Pratapaditya. “A Kushān Indra and Some Related Sculptures.” <em>Oriental Art</em>, vol. 25,no. 2 (Summer 1979): pp. 213-230.
	page number: 	Mentioned and Reproduced: fig. 19, p. 222
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	Czuma, Stanislaw J. and Rekha Morris. <em>Kushan Sculpture: Images from Early Indi</em>a. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1985.
	page number: 	Reproduced: cat. no. 27, p. 88
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1991.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 15
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1991/page/n30

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