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        "tombstone": "Amorous Couple (Mithuna), 400s. Northern India, Uttar Pradesh, Ahichchatra, Gupta period (c. 320-550). Terracotta; overall: 38.5 x 37 cm (15 3/16 x 14 9/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1971.133",
        "current_location": "242A Ancient India",
        "title": "Amorous Couple (Mithuna)",
        "creation_date": "400s",
        "creation_date_earliest": 400,
        "creation_date_latest": 499,
        "artists_tags": [],
        "culture": [
            "Northern India, Uttar Pradesh, Ahichchatra, Gupta period (c. 320-550)"
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        "technique": "terracotta",
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        "department": "Indian and Southeast Asian Art",
        "collection": "Indian Art",
        "type": "Sculpture",
        "measurements": "Overall: 38.5 x 37 cm (15 3/16 x 14 9/16 in.)",
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                "height_inch": 15,
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        "inscriptions": [],
        "exhibitions": {
            "current": [
                {
                    "id": 301427,
                    "title": "Year in Review: 1971",
                    "description": "<i>Year in Review: 1971</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 28, 1971-February 6, 1972).",
                    "opening_date": "1971-12-28T05:00:00"
                },
                {
                    "id": 443756,
                    "title": "The Ideal Image: The Gupta Sculptural Tradition and Its Influence",
                    "description": "<i>The Ideal Image: The Gupta Sculptural Tradition and Its Influence</i>. 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).",
                    "opening_date": "1978-10-05T04:00:00"
                }
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            "legacy": []
        },
        "provenance": [
            {
                "description": "(J.J. Klejman [1906\u20131995], New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)",
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                "footnotes": null,
                "date": "?\u20131971",
                "sortorder": 1
            },
            {
                "description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH",
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                "footnotes": null,
                "date": "1971\u2013",
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        "did_you_know": "The site of Ahichchatra retains ruins of a pyramid-shaped brick temple dedicated to Shiva.",
        "early_education_description": null,
        "artlens_description": null,
        "description": "Amorous couples were among the most prevalent imagery on the exterior of sacred sites in early India. Their life-affirming imagery was considered auspicious. This roundel would have been part of a brick structure, since terracotta was typically used in the ornamentation of brick temples, instead of stone.",
        "external_resources": {
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                "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q79923757"
            ],
            "internet_archive": [
                "https://archive.org/details/clevelandart-1971.133-amorous-couple-mithu"
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        },
        "citations": [
            {
                "citation": "Lee, Sherman E. \u201cThe Year in Review for 1971.\u201d <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 59, no. 1 (January 1972): 3\u201346.",
                "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 45, no. 137; Reproduced: p. 24, no. 137",
                "url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25152412"
            },
            {
                "citation": "Pal, Pratapaditya. <em>The Ideal Image: The Gupta Sculptural Tradition and Its Influence</em>. New York: Asia Society in association with J. Weatherhill, 1978.",
                "page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 30, p. 82",
                "url": ""
            },
            {
                "citation": "Neils, Jenifer. <em>The World of Ceramics: Masterpieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Museum in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1982.",
                "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: P. 162, no. 166",
                "url": ""
            }
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