id: 149101 accession number: 1977.34 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1977.34 updated: 2024-03-26 01:59:41.359000 Corner Railing Pillar with Drinking Scenes, Yakshis, and Musicians, 100s CE. India, Mathura, Kushan period. Red sandstone; overall: 80 x 22.9 x 24 cm (31 1/2 x 9 x 9 7/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1977.34 title: Corner Railing Pillar with Drinking Scenes, Yakshis, and Musicians title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 100s CE creation date earliest: 100 creation date latest: 199 current location: 242A Ancient India creditline: John L. Severance Fund copyright: --- culture: India, Mathura, Kushan period technique: red sandstone department: Indian and Southeast Asian Art collection: Indian Art - Kushan, Mathura type: Sculpture find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 80 x 22.9 x 24 cm (31 1/2 x 9 x 9 7/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Year in Review: 1977 opening date: 1977-12-28T05:00:00 Year in Review: 1977. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 28, 1977-January 22, 1978). title: The Twain Shall Meet opening date: 1985-10-30T05:00:00 The Twain Shall Meet. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 30, 1985-January 5, 1986). title: Kushan Sculpture: Images from Early India opening date: 1985-11-13T05:00:00 Kushan Sculpture: Images from Early India. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 13, 1985-January 5, 1986); The Asia Society Museum, New York, NY (February 13-April 6, 1986); Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA (May 13-July 13, 1986). title: Buddha in India opening date: 1995-04-02T05:00:00 Buddha in India. Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien (organizer) (April 2-July 16, 1995). title: Streams and Mountains Without End: Asian Art and the Legacy of Sherman E. Lee at the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 2009-06-27T04:00:00 Streams and Mountains Without End: Asian Art and the Legacy of Sherman E. Lee at the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 27-August 23, 2009). title: Gallery One 2012 opening date: 2012-12-12T05:00:00 Gallery One 2012. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 12, 2012-March 5, 2017). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE (Wiener Gallery, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: ?–1977 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1977– footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS 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. 289 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n309 Lee, Sherman E. “The Year in Review for 1977.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 65, no. 1, 1978, pp. 2–43. page number: Mentioned: no. 151, p. 43; Reproduced: no. 151, p. 30 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25159560 Buren, Geneviève de. La chronique des arts: principales acquisitions des musées en 1977. Lausanne: Gazette des beaux-arts, 1978. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 178, p. 38 url: "Annual Report for 1977." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 65, no. 6 (1978): 177-215. page number: Mentioned: p. 191 url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25159587 Carter, Martha L. “The Bacchants of Mathura: New Evidence of Dionysiac Yaksha Imagery from Kushan Mathura.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 69, no. 8, 1982, pp. 247–257. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 247–250 url: www.jstor.org/stable/25159785 Neils, Jenifer. “The Twain Shall Meet.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 72, no. 6, 1985, pp. 326–359. page number: Reproduced: p. 337, fig. 17 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25159914 Czuma, Stanislaw J., and Rekha Morris. Kushan Sculpture: Images from Early India. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1985. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 42, p. 111 url: Cunningham, Michael R., Stanislaw J. Czuma, Anne E. Wardwell, and J. Keith Wilson. Masterworks of Asian Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1998. page number: Reproduced: pp. 118-119 url: Czuma, Stanislaw J. "A Quest for the Best: The Enduring Legacy of Sherman E. Lee," Orientations vol. 40, no. 5 (June 2009), pp. 35-40. page number: Reproduced: p. 35, fig. 1 url: Peterson, Sara. An Account of the Dionysiac Presence in Indian Art and Culture. [unpublished manuscript] London, SOAS, 2011-2012. page number: Reproduced: fig. V, p. 17 url: Hofstadter, Dan. "Big Baby." Art & Antiques. February 2011, Vol. 34, Issue 2, pp. 64-73. page number: Reproduced: p. 73 url: Kim, Seungjung, "The Beginnings of the East-West Dialogue: An Examination of Dionysiac Representations in Gandharan and Kushan-Mathuran Art." In Beyond Boundaries: East and West Cross-Cultural Encounters, pp. 16-34. Michelle Ying Ling Huang, editor. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012. page number: Reproduced: fig. 1-1, p. 32 url: Franklin, David and C. Griffith Mann. Treasures from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2012. page number: Reproduced: pp. 44-45 url: Carter, Martha L., Prudence Oliver Harper, and Pieter Meyers. Arts of the Hellenized East: Precious Metalwork and Gems of the Pre-Islamic Era. London : Thames & Hudson Ltd, 2015. page number: Reproduced: fig. 1.8, p. 30 url: Bracey, Robert. "Is It Appropriate To Ask a Celestial Lady's Age?" In Problems of Chronology in Gandhāran Art. International Workshop of the Gandhāra Connections Project, Proceedings of the First International Workshop of the Gandhāra Connections Project, University of Oxford, 23rd-24th March, 2017. Wannaporn Rienjang, and Peter Stewart, eds., 135-147. Oxford: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd., 2018. page number: Mentioned: pp. 135-147; Reproduced: p. 135 url: Sengupta, Arputha Rani. Buddhist Jewels in Mortuary Cult: Magic Symbols. Delhi: Agam Kala Prakashan, 2019. page number: Reproduced: Vol. 1, p. 152, fig. 3.54, P. 164, fig. 3.70a Mentioned: Vol. 1, pp. 154-155, 163 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1977.34/1977.34_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1977.34/1977.34_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1977.34/1977.34_full.tif