id:			141661
accession number:	1965.250
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Railing Pillar with a Yakshi (Female Nature Divinity), c. 125–50 CE. Northern India, Mathura, Kushan period. Red sandstone; overall: 70.5 x 17.5 cm (27 3/4 x 6 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund 1965.250

title:				Railing Pillar with a Yakshi (Female Nature Divinity)
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creation date:			c. 125–50 CE
creation date earliest:		100
creation date latest:		199
current location:		242A Ancient India
creditline:			Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund
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culture:	Northern 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: 70.5 x 17.5 cm (27 3/4 x 6 7/8 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Year in Review: 1965
	opening date:   1965-10-27T04:00:00
	<i>Year in Review: 1965</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 27-November 14, 1965).

	title:		Kushan Sculpture: Images from Early India
	opening date:   1985-11-13T05:00:00
	<i>Kushan Sculpture: Images from Early India</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 13, 1985-January 5, 1986).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	(Frank Caro [1904–1980], New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
	date: ?–1965
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1965–
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CITATIONS

	“Art of Asia Recently Acquired by American Museums, 1965.” <em>Archives of Asian Art</em>, vol. 20, 1966, pp. 84–113.
	page number: 	Mentioned and Reproduced: fig. 10, p. 87
	url:		www.jstor.org/stable/20110986

	<em>La chronique des arts</em>, 1966, no. 154.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 38
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	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. 92, figs. 16 and 17
	url:		www.jstor.org/stable/25152680

	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: 	Reprodcued: fig. 9, p. 252
	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. 33, p. 97
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