id: 151960 accession number: 1984.3 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1984.3 updated: 2023-08-23 22:50:39.989000 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 title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1300s creation date earliest: 1300 creation date latest: 1399 current location: 237 Himalayan creditline: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund copyright: --- culture: Nepal, 14th century technique: gilt bronze department: Indian and Southeast Asian Art collection: Nepalese Art type: Sculpture find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- 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.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- 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). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE Pan Asian Collection date: footnotes: citations: Pan Asian Collection date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: 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. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1984.3/1984.3_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1984.3/1984.3_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1984.3/1984.3_full.tif