id:			147578
accession number:	1973.76
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1973.76
updated:		2023-08-23 22:27:32.233000

Section from a Portable Shrine, AD 100s. Pakistan, Gandhara, Kushan period (c. 80-320). Gray schist; overall: 14.6 x 6 cm (5 3/4 x 2 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1973.76

title:				Section from a Portable Shrine
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creation date:			AD 100s
creation date earliest:		100
creation date latest:		199
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creditline:			John L. Severance Fund
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culture:	Pakistan, Gandhara, Kushan period (c. 80-320)
technique:	gray schist
department:	Indian and Southeast Asian Art
collection:	Indian Art - Kushan, Gandhara
type:		Sculpture
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catalogue raisonne: 

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CREATORS

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measurements: Overall: 14.6 x 6 cm (5 3/4 x 2 3/8 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Kushan Sculpture: Images from Early India
	opening date:   1985-11-13T05:00:00
	<i>Kushan Sculpture: Images from Early India</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 13, 1985-January 5, 1986).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	(Peter Marks, 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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fun fact:


digital description:
Figures of deities who protect children are featured in this relief carving. A form of Skanda holding a bird and a flower stands next to a regal yakshi with pointed rodent or elephant ears. A diminutive figure who may be a child is shown kneeling at his feet. Above, the six-headed mother goddess Shashthi sits next to Skanda, holding the spear.

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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. 176, p. 78; Reproduced: no. 176, p. 58
	url:		https://www.jstor.org/stable/25152513

	Czuma, Stanislaw J., and Rekha Morris. <em>Kushan Sculpture: Images from Early India</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1985.
	page number: 	Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 80, p. 162
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	Koizumi, Yoshihide, “Study on the Portable Shrines in Northwest India.” <em>Proceedings of the Tokyo National Museum </em>東京国立博物館紀要, vol. 35 (2000), pp. 87-158.
	page number: 	Reproduced: fig. 9
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