id: 151960
accession number: 1984.3
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Uma-Maheshvara, 1300s. Nepal, 14th century. Gilt bronze; overall: 29.8 x 27.2 cm (11 3/4 x 10 11/16 in.); with base: 32.6 cm (12 13/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund 1984.3
title: Uma-Maheshvara
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creation date: 1300s
creation date earliest: 1300
creation date latest: 1399
current location: 237 Himalayan
creditline: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund
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culture: Nepal, 14th century
technique: gilt bronze
department: Indian and Southeast Asian Art
collection: Nepalese Art
type: Sculpture
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measurements: Overall: 29.8 x 27.2 cm (11 3/4 x 10 11/16 in.); with base: 32.6 cm (12 13/16 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Year in Review for 1984
opening date: 1985-04-03T05:00:00
Year in Review for 1984. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 3-May 5, 1985).
title: Images of the Mind
opening date: 1987-07-07T04:00:00
Images of the Mind. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 7-August 30, 1987).
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Pan Asian Collection
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Pan Asian Collection
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The Hindu god Shiva, with his third eye of wisdom, the skull, and crescent moon adorning his hair, is depicted in his rare benign but powerful 18-armed form, seated in the posture of royal ease. His consort Uma, another name for Parvati, perches on his left knee; both have their main left hands held in the gesture of discourse. Works for Hindu devotion in Nepal were made by the same artists who made Buddhist images; for this reason, Buddhist and Hindu images were made in the same style and differ only in iconography.
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