id: 125561 accession number: 1947.493 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1947.493 updated: 2025-02-09 01:17:29.724000 Vasudhara, Goddess of Abundance, 1300s–1400s. Nepal. Gilt bronze and semiprecious stones; overall: 16.2 cm (6 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1947.493 title: Vasudhara, Goddess of Abundance title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1300s–1400s creation date earliest: 1300 creation date latest: 1499 current location: 237 Himalayan creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund copyright: --- culture: Nepal technique: gilt bronze and semiprecious stones department: Indian and Southeast Asian Art collection: Nepalese Art type: Sculpture find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 16.2 cm (6 3/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Art of Nepal opening date: 1964-05-07T04:00:00 Art of Nepal. The Asia Society Museum, New York, NY (organizer) (May 7-August 30, 1964). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE (Heeramaneck Galleries, New York, NY,, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: ?–1947 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1947– footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Hollis, Howard. "A Nepalese Gilt-Copper Image." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 35,, no. 3 (March 1948): 39–40. page number: Mentioned: p. 39; Reproduced: p. 41 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25141447 The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 755 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n136 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. page number: Reproduced: p. 233 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n257 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. page number: Reproduced: p. 233 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n257 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 296 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n316 Reedy, Chandra L. Himalayan Bronzes: Technology, Style, and Choices. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1997. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 239, fig. N276 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1947.493/1947.493_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1947.493/1947.493_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1947.493/1947.493_full.tif