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accession number: 1971.14
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Vajrapani, 700s. India, Kashmir. Bronze with silver overlay and gum tempera; overall: 22 cm (8 11/16 in.); base: 12.8 cm (5 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1971.14
title: Vajrapani
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creation date: 700s
creation date earliest: 700
creation date latest: 799
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creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
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culture: India, Kashmir
technique: bronze with silver overlay and gum tempera
department: Indian and Southeast Asian Art
collection: Indian Art
type: Sculpture
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measurements: Overall: 22 cm (8 11/16 in.); Base: 12.8 cm (5 1/16 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Images of Enlightenment: Gems from Buddhist Art of Asia
opening date: 1998-09-26T00:00:00
Images of Enlightenment: Gems from Buddhist Art of Asia. Art Museum, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (September 26-December 15, 1998).
title: Himalayas: An Aesthetic Adventure
opening date: 2003-04-05T00:00:00
Himalayas: An Aesthetic Adventure. The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (organizer) (April 5-August 17, 2003); National Museum of Asian Art, Washington, DC (October 19, 2003-January 11, 2004).
title: Focus: Tantra in Buddhist Art
opening date: 2013-05-05T00:00:00
Focus: Tantra in Buddhist Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 5-September 15, 2013).
title: Collecting Paradise: Buddhist Art of Kashmir and Its Legacies
opening date: 2015-01-13T00:00:00
Collecting Paradise: Buddhist Art of Kashmir and Its Legacies. Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Evanston, IL (organizer) (January 13-April 19, 2015); Rubin Museum of Art, New York, NY (May 22-October 19, 2015).
title: Himalayan Gallery 237 Rotation – November 2016-April 2017
opening date: 2016-11-07T05:00:00
Himalayan Gallery 237 Rotation – November 2016-April 2017. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (November 7, 2016-April 10, 2017).
title: Faith and Empire: Art and Politics in Tibetan Buddhism
opening date: 2019-02-01T05:00:00
Faith and Empire: Art and Politics in Tibetan Buddhism. Rubin Museum of Art, New York, NY (organizer) (February 1-July 15, 2019).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
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PROVENANCE
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 1971–
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Cleveland Museum of Art. The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1914.
page number: Mentioned: no. 175, p. 47; Reproduced: no. 175, p. 25
url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25152412
Pal, Pratapaditya. "Bronzes of Kashmir: Their Sources and Influences." Journal of the Royal Society of Arts 121, no. 5207 (October 1973): 726-49.
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 747, fig. 16
url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/41371150
Pal, Pratapaditya. Bronzes of Kashmir. Graz: Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt, 1975.
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 164, fig. 60
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Galeries nationales du Grand Palais (France), Réunion des musées nationaux (France), and Haus der Kunst München. Dieux et démons de l'Himâlaya: art du bouddhisme lamaïque : [exposition], Grand-Palais, 25 mars-27 juin 1977. Paris: Secrétariat d'État à la culture, Éditions des musées nationaux, 1977.
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: fig. 35, pp. 88 and 90
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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. 293
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n313
Pal, Pratapaditya. "An Adorsed Śaiva Image from Kashmir and its Cultural Significance." Art International vol XXIV, no. 5-6 (January-February 1981): pp. 6-60.
page number: Reproduced and mentioned: fig. 24, pp. 44-45
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Schroeder, Ulrich von. Indo-Tibetan Bronzes. Hong Kong: Visual Dharma Publications, 1981.
page number: Mentioned: no. 18B, p. 122; Reproduced: p. 123
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Klimburg-Salter, Deborah E., and Maximilian Klimburg. The Silk Route and the Diamond Path: Esoteric Buddhist Art on the Trans-Himalayan Trade Routes. Los Angeles, Calif: Published under the sponsorship of the UCLA Art Council, 1982.
page number: Reproduced: p. 106, pl. 33
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Czuma, Stanislaw. "A Unique Addition to the School of Kashmiri Ivories." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 75, no. 8 (1988): 298-319.
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 309, fig. 17
url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25160044
Reedy, Chandra L. Himalayan Bronzes: Technology, Style, and Choices. Newark, DE: University of Delaware Press, 1997.
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 157, fig K49
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Ghose, Rajeshwari, Puay-peng Ho, and Chuntang Yang. Fa xiang chuan zhen: gu dai fo jiao yi shu [法相傳真 : 古代佛教兿術; In the footsteps of the Buddha: an iconic journey from India to China]. Hong Kong: Xianggang da xue mei shu bo wu guan, 1998.
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 30, p. 189
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Ghose, Rajeshwari. "In the Footsteps of the Buddha - An Iconic Journey from India to China." Orientations, Oct98, Vol. 29 Issue 9, p108-109
page number: Reproduced: p. 108
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Davidson, Ronald M. Indian Esoteric Buddhism: A Social History of the Tantric Movement. New York: Columbia University Press, 2002.
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: fig. 2
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Pal, Pratapaditya, Amy Heller, Oskar von Hinüber, and Gautamavajra Vajrācārya. Himalayas: An Aesthetic Adventure. Chicago, IL: Art Institute of Chicago in association with University of California Press and Mapin Pub, 2003.
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 59, p. 101
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Johnson, Ken. "'Collecting Paradise' at the Rubin: A Curious Case of Divergence." The New York Times, July 3, 2015.
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"#CMAonthemove Instagram Contest.” Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine vol. 57, no. 4 (May/June 2017): 15.
page number: Reproduced: P. 15.
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Debreczeny, Karl. Faith and Empire: Art and Politics in Tibetan Buddhism. New York, NY: Rubin Museum of Art, 2019.
page number: Reproduced: fig. 2.7, pp. 53, 62-63
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