id: 144908 accession number: 1970.12 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1970.12 updated: 2023-04-23 11:15:56.687000 Mother Goddess, AD 400s-500s. Northwestern India, Rajasthan, Gupta Period, 5th-6th Century. 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 title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: AD 400s-500s creation date earliest: 400 creation date latest: 599 current location: 243 Indian and Southeast Asian creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund copyright: --- culture: Northwestern India, Rajasthan, Gupta Period, 5th-6th Century technique: schist department: Indian and Southeast Asian Art collection: Indian Art type: Sculpture find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 79.4 x 23.2 cm (31 1/4 x 9 1/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- 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). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1970– footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: The mother goddess cult can be traced back as far as the Indus Valley civilization. digital description: wall description: Sets of seven or eight mother goddesses were installed in side chambers near the entrance to Hindu temples. From one of the most naturalistic and charming sets, this mother attentively grasps the wrist of her toddler to gently guide him, while smiling lovingly and patiently at him. The simplicity of garments and ornament is characteristic of sculpture of the 5th and 6th centuries, and the naturalistic qualities of this work from northwestern India suggest connections with the Greco-Roman styles of Gandhara, in present-day Pakistan. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Agrawala, R. C. “Some More Unpublished Sculptures from Rajasthan.” Lalit Kala, No. 10 (October 1961). page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: fig. 14 url: 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. page number: url: 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 url: 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 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. 134-135 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. 84 url: 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 url: 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 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1970.12/1970.12_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1970.12/1970.12_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1970.12/1970.12_full.tif