id:			146956
accession number:	1972.35
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1972.35
updated:		2023-03-11 20:50:58.575000

Female Attendants, 700s. India, Kashmir. Ivory; overall: 7.5 cm (2 15/16 in.); base: 2.2 x 2.3 cm (7/8 x 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1972.35

title:				Female Attendants
title in original language:	
series:				
series in original language:	
creation date:			700s
creation date earliest:		700
creation date latest:		799
current location:		237 Himalayan
creditline:			John L. Severance Fund
copyright:			

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culture:	India, Kashmir
technique:	ivory
department:	Indian and Southeast Asian Art
collection:	Indian Art
type:		Ivory
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catalogue raisonne: 

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CREATORS

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measurements: Overall: 7.5 cm (2 15/16 in.); Base: 2.2 x 2.3 cm (7/8 x 7/8 in.)
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support materials:


inscriptions:

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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Year in Review: 1972
	opening date:   1973-02-27T05:00:00
	<i>Year in Review: 1972</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 27-March 18, 1973).

	title:		Collecting Paradise: Buddhist Art of Kashmir and Its Legacies
	opening date:   2015-01-13T00:00:00
	<i>Collecting Paradise: Buddhist Art of Kashmir and Its Legacies</i>. Rubin Museum of Art, New York, NY (May 22-October 19, 2015).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	(Spink & Son, Ltd., London, UK, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
	date: ?-1972
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	citations: 	


	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1972-
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fun fact:
Traces of turquoise paint remain on their bodies, suggesting the presence of fabric.

digital description:
These elegant female figures would have originally been in a portable, wooden shrine with a central ivory depicting the Buddha. One holds a <em>chaurī</em>, or flywhisk, a frequent attribute of attendants, while the one originally on the left holds a lotus. Both display a graceful contraposto (<em>tribhanga</em>). Their rich jewelry contrasts successfully with the softness of their flesh.

wall description:

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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Lee, Sherman E. "The Year in Review for 1972." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 60, no. 3 (1973): 63-115.
	page number: 	Mentioned: no. 322, p. 115; Mentioned: no. 322, p. 92
	url:		http://www.jstor.org/stable/25093732

	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. 293
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n313

	Czuma, Stanislaw. "A Unique Addition to the School of Kashmiri Ivories." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 75, no. 8 (1988): 298-319.
	page number: 	Mentioned and Reproduced: fig. 5, p. 302; fig. 8a, p. 304; fig. 8b, p. 305
	url:		https://www.jstor.org/stable/25160044

	Benay, Erin E. <em>Italy by Way of India: Translating Art and Devotion in the Early Modern World.</em> Turnhout: Harvey Miller Publishers, 2021.
	page number: 	Mentioned and reproduced: pp. 79–80, figs. 68 and 69
	url:		

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IMAGES

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