id:			123468
accession number:	1943.72
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Veneration of the Buddha as a Fiery Pillar, 200s CE. Southern India, Andhra Pradesh, Nagarjunakonda. Limestone; overall: 59 cm (23 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1943.72

title:				Veneration of the Buddha as a Fiery Pillar
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creation date:			200s CE
creation date earliest:		200
creation date latest:		299
current location:		242A Ancient India
creditline:			Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
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culture:	Southern India, Andhra Pradesh, Nagarjunakonda
technique:	limestone
department:	Indian and Southeast Asian Art
collection:	Indian Art - Andhra
type:		Sculpture
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measurements: Overall: 59 cm (23 1/4 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Images of Enlightenment:  Gems from Buddhist Art of Asia
	opening date:   1998-09-26T00:00:00
	<i>Images of Enlightenment:  Gems from Buddhist Art of Asia</i>. Art Museum, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (September 26-December 15, 1998).

	title:		Tree and Serpent: The Evolution of Early Buddhist Art in India
	opening date:   2023-07-17T04:00:00
	<i>Tree and Serpent: The Evolution of Early Buddhist Art in India</i>. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (organizer) (July 17-November 13, 2023).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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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

	Ramachandran, T. N. “Nāgārjunikonda.” <em>Memoirs of the Archæological Survey of India</em>, 1928.
	page number: 	no. 71, pp. 9, 25, 36
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	Coomaraswamy, Ananda K. <em>Elements of Buddhist Iconography</em>. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1935.
	page number: 	Reproduced: pl. ii
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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 and Reproduced: no. 5, p. 21
	url:		

	Hollis, Howard. “A Relief from Amarāvati.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>, vol. 32, no. 1, 1945, pp. 7–8, 11.
	page number: 	Mentioned: pp. 7–8; Reproduced: p. 11
	url:		https://www.jstor.org/stable/25141176

	Barrett, Douglas E. <em>Sculptures from Amaravati in the British Museum</em>. London: Trustees of the British Museum, 1954.
	page number: 	
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	Ramachandra Rao, P. R. <em>The Art of Nāgārjunikonda</em>. Madras: Rachana, 1956.
	page number: 	
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	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. 746
	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. 230
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n254

	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. 230
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n254

	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. 290
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n310

	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: 	Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 8
	url:		

	Ghose, Rajeshwari, Puay-peng Ho, and Chuntang Yang. <em>Fa xiang chuan zhen: gu dai fo jiao yi shu</em> [法相傳真 : 古代佛教兿術; In the footsteps of the Buddha: an iconic journey from India to China]. Hong Kong: Xianggang da xue mei shu bo wu guan, 1998.
	page number: 	Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 2, p. 143
	url:		

	Guy, John. <em>Tree &amp; Serpent: Early Buddhist Art in India. </em>Exh. cat. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2023.
	page number: 	Mentioned: pp. 229–230; Reproduced: p. 229, cat. 111
	url:		

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