id:			125561
accession number:	1947.493
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1947.493
updated:		2025-10-14 11:14:30.733000

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
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creation date:			1300s–1400s
creation date earliest:		1300
creation date latest:		1499
current location:		237 Himalayan
creditline:			Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
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culture:	Nepal
technique:	gilt bronze and semiprecious stones
department:	Indian and Southeast Asian Art
collection:	Nepalese Art
type:		Sculpture
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measurements: Overall: 16.2 cm (6 3/8 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Indian and Indonesian Bronze
	opening date:   1955-11-02T05:00:00
	<i>Indian and Indonesian Bronze</i>. Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI (organizer) (November 2-30, 1955).

	title:		Asia and the West
	opening date:   1957-10-28T05:00:00
	<i>Asia and the West</i>. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA (organizer) (October 28-December 1, 1957).

	title:		Art of Nepal
	opening date:   1964-05-07T04:00:00
	<i>Art of Nepal</i>. The Asia Society Museum, New York, NY (organizer) (May 7-August 30, 1964).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	(Heeramaneck Galleries, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
	date: ?–1947
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1947–
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Hollis, Howard. "A Nepalese Gilt-Copper Image." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art </em>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. <em>The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook.</em> Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.
	page number: 	Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 755
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n136

	Kramrisch, Stella. <em>The Art of Nepal</em>. New York: Distributed by H.N. Abrams, 1964.
	page number: 	no. 46
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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. 233
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n257

	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. 233
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n257

	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. 296
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n316

	Schroeder, Ulrich von. <em>Indo-Tibetan Bronzes</em>. 1st ed. Hong Kong, Glattbrugg, Switzerland: Visual Dharma Publications; Sole distributor, Nanda Distribution, 1981.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 358, no. 95D; Reproduced: p. 359, no. 95D
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	Reedy, Chandra L. <em>Himalayan Bronzes: Technology, Style, and Choices</em>. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1997.
	page number: 	Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 239, fig. N276
	url:		

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