id:			145968
accession number:	1971.173
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1971.173
updated:		2025-11-04 13:30:58.324000

Ravana Shaking Mount Kailasa, 700s. Central India, Madhya Pradesh, Chandela Dynasty, 8th century. Sandstone; overall: 139 x 72 cm (54 3/4 x 28 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Sundry Purchase Fund, 1971.173

title:				Ravana Shaking Mount Kailasa
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creation date:			700s
creation date earliest:		700
creation date latest:		799
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creditline:			Sundry Purchase Fund
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culture:	Central India, Madhya Pradesh, Chandela Dynasty, 8th century
technique:	sandstone
department:	Indian and Southeast Asian Art
collection:	Indian Art
type:		Sculpture
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measurements: Overall: 139 x 72 cm (54 3/4 x 28 3/8 in.)
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PROVENANCE

	(Roland Do Huu, Paris, France, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
	date: ?–1971
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1971–
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CITATIONS

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 301
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n321

	Donaldson, Thomas E. <em>Síva-Pārvatī and Allied Images: Their Iconography and Body Language</em>. New Delhi: D.K. Printworld, 2007.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 196, fig. 110
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	Quintanilla, Sonya Rhie. "Indic Art Returns." <em>Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine</em> 53, no. 5 (September/October 2013): 16–17.
	page number: 	Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 176
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAMM2013-05/page/16

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