id:			152096
accession number:	1985.103
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1985.103
updated:		2023-04-19 11:40:20.325000

Ladies Entertained by Dancers, AD 1–200. Afghanistan, Begram, Kushan period (AD 1–320). Ivory; overall: 7.5 x 17 cm (2 15/16 x 6 11/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund 1985.103

title:				Ladies Entertained by Dancers
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creation date:			AD 1–200
creation date earliest:		1
creation date latest:		200
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creditline:			Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund
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culture:	Afghanistan, Begram, Kushan period (AD 1–320)
technique:	ivory
department:	Indian and Southeast Asian Art
collection:	Indian Art - Kushan
type:		Ivory
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measurements: Overall: 7.5 x 17 cm (2 15/16 x 6 11/16 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

* <em>Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 245)</em>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (December 18, 2013-May 12, 2014).

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PROVENANCE

	Frederick M. Mayer [1899–1974], New York, NY, by descent to his son, Robert J. Mayer
	date: ?–1974
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	Robert J. Mayer
	date: 1974–?
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	(Spink & Son, Ltd., London, England, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
	date: ?–1985
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1985–
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wall description:
This ivory carving was made to sheath wooden furniture made in India for trade along the Silk Road, which stretched from Rome to China. Indian ivory-faced furnishings--along with lacquer boxes from China and painted glass from Rome--were found in an extraordinary deposit of luxury goods at a site called Begram. The wood on which the ivory and lacquer were affixed has long disintegrated, and only the small pieces remain.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Hackin, Joseph. <em>Nouvelles recherches archéologiques à Begram, ancienne Kâpicî, 1939-1940; rencontre de trois civilisations, Inde, Grèce, Chine</em>. Paris: Impr. nationale, 1954.
	page number: 	Mentioned and Reproduced: fig. 147, no. 34a9, p. 181, and pls
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	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. 47, p. 118
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	Turner, Evan H. "The Year in Review for 1985." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 73, no. 2 (1986): 26-71.
	page number: 	Mentioned: no. 197, pp. 35 and 70; Reproduced: no. 197, p. 39
	url:		http://www.jstor.org/stable/25159930

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1991.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 15
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1991/page/n30

	Cunningham, Michael R., Stanislaw J. Czuma, Anne E. Wardwell, and J. Keith Wilson. <em>Masterworks of Asian Art</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1998.
	page number: 	Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 122–123
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