id: 147569
accession number: 1973.69
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Bejeweled Buddha Preaching, 1648. Nepal. Gum tempera, ink, and gold on cloth; overall: 109.5 x 82.5 cm (43 1/8 x 32 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1973.69
title: Bejeweled Buddha Preaching
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creation date: 1648
creation date earliest: 1648
creation date latest: 1648
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creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
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culture: Nepal
technique: Gum tempera, ink, and gold on cloth
department: Indian and Southeast Asian Art
collection: Nepalese Art
type: Painting
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measurements: Overall: 109.5 x 82.5 cm (43 1/8 x 32 1/2 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Sacred India
opening date: 1985-11-05T05:00:00
Sacred India. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 5, 1985-January 12, 1986).
title: The Circle of Bliss: Buddhist Meditational Art
opening date: 2003-10-05T00:00:00
The Circle of Bliss: Buddhist Meditational Art. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA (organizer) (October 5, 2003-January 11, 2004).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* {'description': 'Himalayan Gallery Rotation (gallery 239/237). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (November 2, 2015–April 4, 2016).', 'opening_date': '2015-11-02T05:00:00Z'}
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PROVENANCE
(Wiener Gallery, 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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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
"The Year in Review for 1973." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 61, no. 2 (1974): 31-78.
page number: Mentioned: no. 199, p. 79; Reproduced: no. 199, p. 62
url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25152513
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. 297
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n317
Huntington, John C., Dina Bangdel, and Robert A. F. Thurman. The Circle of Bliss: Buddhist Meditational Art. Chicago: Serindia Publications, 2003.
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 146–149, cat. no. 30
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Béguin, Gilles. Buddhist Art: An Historical and Cultural Journey. Bangkok: River Books, 2009.
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 253, fig. 6
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