id: 144058 accession number: 1968.40 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1968.40 updated: 2024-03-26 11:01:43.520000 Standing Buddha, 591. Northern India, Uttar Pradesh. Bronze; overall: 46.5 x 15.4 x 13.4 cm (18 5/16 x 6 1/16 x 5 1/4 in.); without base: 35 x 13.8 x 10.5 cm (13 3/4 x 5 7/16 x 4 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1968.40 title: Standing Buddha title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 591 creation date earliest: 591 creation date latest: 591 current location: 243 Indian and Southeast Asian creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund copyright: --- culture: Northern India, Uttar Pradesh technique: bronze department: Indian and Southeast Asian Art collection: Indian Art type: Sculpture find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 46.5 x 15.4 x 13.4 cm (18 5/16 x 6 1/16 x 5 1/4 in.); without base: 35 x 13.8 x 10.5 cm (13 3/4 x 5 7/16 x 4 1/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: 1. ṹ deyadharmmoyaṃ laḍitagrāme yaṃgvalvihāre śā[kya] bhikṣuṇyā 2. pariśuddhamatyā yadattra puṇyaṃ tadbhavatu sarvvasatvānā- 3. manuttarasarvva jñānāvāptaye/ / saṃvat 4a. 500 10 3/ / caityakūta jinabandhuvihārapūrvva-bhuddeśe 4b. piṇḍakena bhojanaṃ karttavya*/ / *Mistake for karttavyam translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Year in Review: 1968 opening date: 1969-01-29T05:00:00 Year in Review: 1968. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 29-March 9, 1969). title: The Ideal Image: The Gupta Sculptural Tradition and Its Influence opening date: 1978-10-05T04:00:00 The Ideal Image: The Gupta Sculptural Tradition and Its Influence. Asia House Galleries, New York City, NY (organizer) (October 5-December 3, 1978); Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX (January 1-February 25, 1979); The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (March 24-May 6, 1979). title: Streams and Mountains Without End: Asian Art and the Legacy of Sherman E. Lee at the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 2009-06-27T04:00:00 Streams and Mountains Without End: Asian Art and the Legacy of Sherman E. Lee at the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 27-August 23, 2009). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE Unknown, Kathmandu, sold to Bombay dealer Lalbhai Dur Lama date: ?–1965 footnotes: citations: (Lalbhai Dur Lama, Bombay, India, sold to Isidor Kahane) date: 1965–? by 1968 footnotes: citations: (I. Kahane, Inc., Zürich, Switzerland, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: ? after 1965–1968 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1968– footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS "Back Matter." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 55, no. 10 (1968). page number: Reproduced: back cover url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25152244 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. 231 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n255 "Art of Asia Recently Acquired by American Museums, 1968." Archives of Asian Art 23 (1969): 58-87. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 62, fig. 14 url: Czuma, Stanislaw. “A Gupta Style Bronze Buddha.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 57, no. 2, 1970, pp. 55–67. page number: Reproduced: Cover; fig. 8, p. 58; fig. 12, p. 60; fig. 13, pp. 62–63; fig. 15, p. 66 url: www.jstor.org/stable/25152311 Czuma, Stanislaw. "Addenda: A Gupta Style Bronze Buddha." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 57, no. 4 (1970). page number: Mentioned: p. 127 url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25152325 Slusser, Mary Shepherd, and Gautamvajra Vajracharya. "On the Antiquity of Nepalese Metalcraft." Archives of Asian Art 29 (1975): 80–95. page number: Reproduced: fig. 5, p. 83 url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20062580 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. 290 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n310 Schroeder, Ulrich von. Indo-Tibetan Bronzes. Hong Kong: Visual Dharma Publications, 1981. page number: Mentioned: no. 74E, p. 304; Reproduced: p. 305 url: Slusser, Mary Shepherd. Nepal Mandala: A Cultural Study of the Kathmandu Valley. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1982. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 287, fig. 448 url: Deva, Krish “The Golden Age of the Guptas” in Indian Bronze Masterpieces: The Great Tradition: Specially Published for the Festival of India. Karl J. Khandalavala, Asharani Mathur, and Sonya Singh, eds. New Delhi: Specially published on behalf of the Festival of India by Brijbasi Printers, 1988. page number: pp. 35-45 url: Cunningham, Michael R., Stanislaw J. Czuma, Anne E. Wardwell, and J. Keith Wilson. Masterworks of Asian Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1998. page number: Reproduced: pp. 130-131 url: Sharma, Deo Prakash, and Madhuri Sharma. Early Buddhist Metal Images of South Asia: With Special Reference to Gupta-Vakatakas Period. Delhi: Bharatiya Kala Prakashan, 2000. page number: Reproduced: fig. 41, p. 103 url: Czuma, Stanislaw, "Great Acquisitions and Southeast Asian Art at the Cleveland Museum of Art," Orientations, An Issue in Honour of Sherman E. Lee (Jan/Feb 2005), vol. 36, no. 1. page number: Reproduced: p. 39, fig. 5 url: Pal, Pratapaditya, and Siddharth K. Bhansali. The Elegant Image: Bronzes from the Indian Subcontinent in the Siddharth K. Bhansali Collection. Mumbai: Marg Foundation, 2011. page number: p. 36 url: Bidwell, Frederick E. and Leslie Cade. The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art; New York, NY: Scala Arts Publishers, 2014. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 203 url: Graldi, Aurora. "Travelling Icons and Travelling Donors: A Metal Buddha Image in The Cleveland Museum of Art." Orientations, volume 49, number 1 (January/February 2018), pp. 96–102. page number: Mentioned: pp. 96–102 url: Guy, John. "Parading Buddha in the Post-Gupta Age: A Newly Discovered Masterpiece of Indian Bronze Sculpture." Orientations 47, no. 2 (March 2018): 102-112.
 page number: Reproduced: p. 105 url: Schorsch, Deborah, Lawrence Becker, and Federico Caro. " Enlightened Technology: casting Divinity in the Gupta Age." Arts of Asia vol. 49, no. 2 (March-April 2019): 131–143. page number: Reproduced: fig. 7 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1968.40/1968.40_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1968.40/1968.40_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1968.40/1968.40_full.tif