id: 145930 accession number: 1971.14 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1971.14 updated: 2025-03-20 11:10:55.793000 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 title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 700s creation date earliest: 700 creation date latest: 799 current location: creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund copyright: --- culture: India, Kashmir technique: bronze with silver overlay and gum tempera department: Indian and Southeast Asian Art collection: Indian Art type: Sculpture find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 22 cm (8 11/16 in.); Base: 12.8 cm (5 1/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- 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). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1971– footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- 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 url: 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 url: 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 url: Schroeder, Ulrich von. Indo-Tibetan Bronzes. Hong Kong: Visual Dharma Publications, 1981. page number: Mentioned: no. 18B, p. 122; Reproduced: p. 123 url: 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 url: 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 url: 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 url: 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 url: 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 url: 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 url: Johnson, Ken. "'Collecting Paradise' at the Rubin: A Curious Case of Divergence." The New York Times, July 3, 2015. page number: url: "#CMAonthemove Instagram Contest.” Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine vol. 57, no. 4 (May/June 2017): 15. page number: Reproduced: P. 15. url: 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 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1971.14/1971.14_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1971.14/1971.14_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1971.14/1971.14_full.tif