id:			149418
accession number:	1978.70
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1978.70
updated:		2025-06-13 12:04:39.756000

Varahi, c. 1300s. Nepal, 14th century. Bronze; overall: 21 cm (8 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund, 1978.70

title:				Varahi
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creation date:			c. 1300s
creation date earliest:		1295
creation date latest:		1405
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creditline:			Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund
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culture:	Nepal, 14th century
technique:	bronze
department:	Indian and Southeast Asian Art
collection:	Nepalese Art
type:		Sculpture
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measurements: Overall: 21 cm (8 1/4 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Year in Review: 1978
	opening date:   1979-02-13T05:00:00
	<i>Year in Review: 1978</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 13-March 18, 1979).

	title:		Sacred India
	opening date:   1985-11-05T05:00:00
	<i>Sacred India</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 5, 1985-January 12, 1986).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	(Ulrich von Schroeder [b. 1943], Zürich, Switzerland, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
	date: ?–1978
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1978–
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Pal, Pratapaditya. "Two Gilt-Copper Survivors of the 1934 Earthquake and Some Related Objects from Nepal." Berliner indologische Studien, vol. 23 (2017): pp. 265-290
	page number: 	pp. 265-290
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	Lee, Sherman E. “The Year in Review for 1978.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 66, no. 1 (January 1979): 3–47.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 29; Mentioned: p. 47, no. 163
	url:		http://www.jstor.org/stable/25159613

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