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accession number: 1970.12
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Mother Goddess, c. 600. Northwestern India, Rajasthan, Udaipur District. Schist; overall: 79.4 x 23.2 cm (31 1/4 x 9 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1970.12
title: Mother Goddess
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creation date: c. 600
creation date earliest: 500
creation date latest: 650
current location: 243 Indian and Southeast Asian
creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
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culture: Northwestern India, Rajasthan, Udaipur District
technique: schist
department: Indian and Southeast Asian Art
collection: Indian Art
type: Sculpture
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measurements: Overall: 79.4 x 23.2 cm (31 1/4 x 9 1/8 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Year in Review: 1970
opening date: 1971-02-10T05:00:00
Year in Review: 1970. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 10-March 7, 1971).
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).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
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PROVENANCE
(Doris and Ed Wiener, New York, NY
date: 1968–1970
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 1970–
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Agrawala, R. C. “Some More Unpublished Sculptures from Rajasthan.” Lalit Kala, No. 10 (October 1961).
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: fig. 14
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Lee, Sherman E. "The Year in Review for 1970." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 58, no. 2 (1971): 22-71.
page number: Mentioned: p. 71, no. 165
url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25152361
Pal, Pratapaditya. “Some Rajasthani Sculptures of the Gupta Period”, Allen Memorial Art Museum Bulletin, Oberlin College (Winter 1971), pp. 105-118.
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Harle, J. C. Gupta Sculpture: Indian Sculpture of the Fourth to the Sixth Centuries A.D. Oxford [England]: Clarendon Press, 1974.
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 26, pl. 91, p. 49
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Czuma, Stanislaw. “Mathura Sculpture in the Cleveland Museum Collection.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 64, no. 3, 1977, pp. 83–114.
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 111, fig. 42
url: www.jstor.org/stable/25152680
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. 292
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n312
Schastok, Sara L. The Śāmalājī Sculptures and 6th Century Art in Western India. Leiden: Brill, 1985.
page number: Mentioned: p. 83; Reproduced: fig. 56, plate XXXIII
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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. 134-135
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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. 84
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Filler, Martin. "The Global Eye of Sherman Lee": The Magazine Antiques, (October 2008), pp. 122–129.
page number: Reproduced: fig. 6, p. 126
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Franklin, David and C. Griffith Mann. Treasures from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2012.
page number: Reproduced: pp. 62-63
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Liebert, Emily, Nadiah Rivera Fellah, and William Griswold. Picturing Motherhood Now. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2021.
page number: Mentioned & Reproduced: pp. 10–11, fig. 2
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