id:			123467
accession number:	1943.71
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1943.71
updated:		2024-03-26 01:57:57.534000

Section of Monolithic Railing with Bather and Lotus Medallions, c. 150–250 CE. India, Mathura, Kushan period. Red sandstone; overall: 53.3 x 45.8 cm (21 x 18 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1943.71

title:				Section of Monolithic Railing with Bather and Lotus Medallions
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creation date:			c. 150–250 CE
creation date earliest:		150
creation date latest:		250
current location:		242A Ancient India
creditline:			Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
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culture:	India, Mathura, Kushan period
technique:	red sandstone
department:	Indian and Southeast Asian Art
collection:	Indian Art - Kushan, Mathura
type:		Sculpture
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measurements: Overall: 53.3 x 45.8 cm (21 x 18 1/16 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).

	title:		The Twain Shall Meet
	opening date:   1985-10-30T05:00:00
	<i>The Twain Shall Meet</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 30, 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'}

* {'description': '<em>Kushan Sculpture: Images from Early India</em>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 13, 1985-January 5, 1986); Asia Society Galleries, New York, NY (February 13-April 6,1986); Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA (May 13-July 13, 1986).', 'opening_date': '1986-05-13T00:00:00'}

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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

	Eastman, Alvan C. <em>Catalog of the Heeramaneck Collection of Early Indian Sculptures, Paintings, Bronzes and Textiles</em>. New York: Heeramaneck Galleries, 1934.
	page number: 	pp. 3, 24, cat. no. 5
	url:		

	Coomaraswamy, Ananda K. and Nasli M. Heeramaneck.<em> Loan Exhibition of Early Indian Sculpture, Paintings and Bronzes</em>. [New York]: [Edwards Printing Co.], 1935.
	page number: 	Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 7, cat. no. 1
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	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. 3, p. 21; Reproduced: cat. no. 3, p. 40
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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: 	Mentioned: pp. 33–34; Reproduced: p. 35
	url:		ttps://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. 744
	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. 91, fig. 15
	url:		https://www.jstor.org/stable/25152680

	Heeramaneck, Alice N. <em>Masterpieces of Indian Sculpture: From the Former Collections of Nasli M. Heeramaneck, Introduction and Descriptive Catalogue</em>. [Place of publication not identified]: A.N. Heeramaneck, 1979.
	page number: 	Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 20
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	Carter, Martha L. “The Bacchants of Mathura: New Evidence of Dionysiac Yaksha Imagery from Kushan Mathura.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>, vol. 69, no. 8, 1982, pp. 247–257.
	page number: 	Reproduced: fig. 8, p. 251
	url:		www.jstor.org/stable/25159785

	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. 28, p. 89
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