id:			147565
accession number:	1973.66
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1973.66
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Necklace Bead and Pair of Pendants in the Shape of an Auspicious Symbol, c. 150 BC. India, Uttar Pradesh or Madhya Pradesh, Shunga Period (c. 187-78 BC). Gold; The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1973.66

title:				Necklace Bead and Pair of Pendants in the Shape of an Auspicious Symbol
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creation date:			c. 150 BC
creation date earliest:		-185
creation date latest:		-72
current location:		242A Ancient India
creditline:			John L. Severance Fund
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culture:	India, Uttar Pradesh or Madhya Pradesh, Shunga Period (c. 187-78 BC)
technique:	gold
department:	Indian and Southeast Asian Art
collection:	Indian Art - Sunga
type:		Jewelry
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catalogue raisonne: 

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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Science within Art
	opening date:   1980-02-13T05:00:00
	<i>Science within Art</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (February 13-April 20, 1980).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	(William H. Wolff [1906-1991], New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
	date: ?-1973
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1973-
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digital description:
These exceptionally fine pieces of gold jewelry would have been strung on a necklace. The auspicious symbols on either side of the egg-shaped bead are in the form of full blown lotus flowers with the seed pods carefully detailed, and trident-shaped forms decorated with stylized palmette motifs emanate down from the lotuses.

wall description:
These pendants are in the form of auspicious symbols. A necklace with pendants in these shapes can be seen in the depiction of a necklace issuing from a lotus rhizome on the coping stone to the left.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	"The Year in Review for 1973." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 61, no. 2 (1974): 31-78.
	page number: 	Mentioned: no. 180, p. 79; Reproduced: no. 180, p. 58
	url:		https://www.jstor.org/stable/25152513

	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. 286
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n306

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1991.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 11
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1991/page/n26

	Cunningham, Michael R., Stanislaw J. Czuma, Anne E. Wardwell, and J. Keith Wilson. <em>Masterworks of Asian Art</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1998.
	page number: 	Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 110–111
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	Sengupta, Arputha Rani. <em>Buddhist Jewels in Mortuary Cult: Magic Symbols. </em>Delhi: Agam Kala Prakashan, 2019.
	page number: 	Reproduced: Vol. 1, P. 28, fig. 1.46; Vol. 2, P. 520, fig. a; Mentioned: Vol. 1, P. 25
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