id:			135587
accession number:	1959.131
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1959.131
updated:		2024-03-26 01:58:45.936000

Seated Ascetics, 300s CE. India, Kashmir, Harwan. Terracotta; overall: 50.8 x 30.6 x 5.2 cm (20 x 12 1/16 x 2 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Edward L. Whittemore Fund 1959.131

title:				Seated Ascetics
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creation date:			300s CE
creation date earliest:		300
creation date latest:		399
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creditline:			Edward L. Whittemore Fund
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culture:	India, Kashmir, Harwan
technique:	terracotta
department:	Indian and Southeast Asian Art
collection:	Indian Art
type:		Sculpture
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measurements: Overall: 50.8 x 30.6 x 5.2 cm (20 x 12 1/16 x 2 1/16 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Yoga: The Art of Transformation
	opening date:   2013-10-19T04:00:00
	<i>Yoga: The Art of Transformation</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (June 22-September 7, 2014).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	Harwan, Kashmir  (from tile pavement and platform in the courtyard of apsidal temple, Harwan)
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	(Samuel Eilenberg, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
	date: ?–1959
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1959–
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RELATED WORKS

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	Archer on Horse, 300s CE. India, Kashmir, Harwan. Terracotta; overall: 33 x 36.9 x 6.4 cm (13 x 14 1/2 x 2 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Edward L. Whittemore Fund 1959.133
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	id: 		135590
	Deer, 300s CE. India, Kashmir, Harwan. Terracotta; overall: 47 x 31.8 x 5.2 cm (18 1/2 x 12 1/2 x 2 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Edward L. Whittemore Fund 1959.134
	relationship: 	

	id: 		135588
	Seated Ascetics, 300s CE. India, Kashmir, Harwan. Terracotta; overall: 50.8 x 30.6 x 5.2 cm (20 x 12 1/16 x 2 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Edward L. Whittemore Fund 1959.132
	relationship: 	

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CITATIONS

	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

	Lee, Sherman E. "Clothed in the Sun: A Buddha and a Surya from Kashmir." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 54, no. 2 (1967): 42-63.
	page number: 	Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 52, fig. 9
	url:		http://www.jstor.org/stable/25152142

	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. 292
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n312

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