id: 145407 accession number: 1970.62 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1970.62 updated: 2025-06-28 05:04:00.244000 Ganesha, c. 1070. South India, Medieval period, Chola dynasty(10th-13th century). Bronze; overall: 50.8 x 25.4 x 17.8 cm (20 x 10 x 7 in.); base: 23 x 18.3 cm (9 1/16 x 7 3/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Katharine Holden Thayer, 1970.62 title: Ganesha title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1070 creation date earliest: 1060 creation date latest: 1080 current location: 244 Indian and Southeast Asian creditline: Gift of Katharine Holden Thayer copyright: --- culture: South India, Medieval period, Chola dynasty(10th-13th century) technique: bronze department: Indian and Southeast Asian Art collection: Indian Art type: Sculpture find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 50.8 x 25.4 x 17.8 cm (20 x 10 x 7 in.); Base: 23 x 18.3 cm (9 1/16 x 7 3/16 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: The Age of Bronze opening date: 1982-07-13T04:00:00 The Age of Bronze. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 13-October 17, 1982). title: Images of the Mind opening date: 1987-07-07T04:00:00 Images of the Mind. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 7-August 30, 1987). title: Dance of the Gods: Indian Art Inspired by Music opening date: 1996-09-24T04:00:00 Dance of the Gods: Indian Art Inspired by Music. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 24-December 8, 1996). title: The Sensuous and the Sacred: Chola Bronzes from South India opening date: 2002-11-10T00:00:00 The Sensuous and the Sacred: Chola Bronzes from South India. National Museum of Asian Art, Washington, DC (November 10, 2002-March 9, 2003); The Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX (April 4-June 15, 2003); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (July 6-September 14, 2003). title: Chola: Sacred Bronzes of Southern India opening date: 2006-11-11T00:00:00 Chola: Sacred Bronzes of Southern India. Royal Academy of Arts, London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (organizer) (November 11, 2006-February 25, 2007). 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). title: Gallery One 2012 opening date: 2012-12-12T05:00:00 Gallery One 2012. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 12, 2012-March 5, 2017). title: Indian Gallery 242 Rotation – April-November 2017 opening date: 2017-04-10T04:00:00 Indian Gallery 242 Rotation – April-November 2017. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (April 10-November 6, 2017). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE (J. J. Klejman, New York, NY) date: footnotes: citations: Katharine Holden Thayer [1898–1985], Cleveland, OH given to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: ?–1970 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1970– footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS "Art of Asia Recently Acquired by American Museums, 1970." Archives of Asian Art 25 (1971): 91-120. page number: Mentioned: P. 110; reproduced: P. 95, fig. 11 url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20111035 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. 299 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n319 Wallbank, T. Walter, A.M. Taylor, and N.M. Bailkey. Civilization Past & Present. Glenview, IL: Scott, Foreseman, 1981. page number: Reproduced: vol. 1, p. 200 url: Cunningham, Michael R., Stanislaw J. Czuma, Anne E. Wardwell, and J. Keith Wilson. Masterworks of Asian Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1998. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: pp. 150–151 url: Davis, Richard H. “Wooden Flowers in the Museum: Reflections on a Decorated Nataraja.” Orientations 33, no. 9 (November 2002): 54–61. page number: Reproduced: P. 56, fig. 5 url: Dehejia, Vidya, Richard H. Davis, Irā Nākacāmi, and Karen Pechilis. The Sensuous and the Sacred: Chola Bronzes from South India. New York: American Federation of Arts, 2002. page number: Reproduced: cat. no. 22, pp. 140–142 url: Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine. Vol. 43 no. 06, Summer 2003 page number: Reproduced: cover url: https://archive.org/details/CMAMM2003-06 Czuma, Stanislaw J. “Great Acquisitions of Indian and Southeast Asian Art at The Cleveland Museum of Art.” Orientations 36, no. 1 (January 2005): 82–87. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 85-86 url: "Sacred Bronzes of Southern India." The Asian Art Newspaper: Monthly for Collectors, Dealers, Museums and Galleries Vol. 9, iss. 10 (October 2006): 12. page number: Reproduced: P. 12 url: Branfoot, Crispin. "Processions and Presence: Bronze Sculptures from the Temples of Southern India." Arts of Asia Vol. 36, No. 6 (November/December 2006): 61-71. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 68, fig. 7 url: Dehejia, Vidya. Chola: Sacred Bronzes of Southern India. London: Royal Academy of Arts, 2006. page number: Reproduced: cat. no. 7, pp. 90-93 url: Locke, Adrian K. "Divine Beauty: Sacred Medieval Bronzes from Southern India." Minerva Vol. 18, No. 1 ( January-February 2007): 22-24. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 24, fig. 9 url: Filler, Martin. "The Global Eye of Sherman Lee": The Magazine Antiques, (October 2008), pp. 122–129. page number: Reproduced: fig. 7, p. 127 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1970.62/1970.62_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1970.62/1970.62_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1970.62/1970.62_full.tif