id: 153369
accession number: 1986.6
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Seated Buddha, 1000s. Painted wood; overall: 54.6 cm (21 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund 1986.6
title: Seated Buddha
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creation date: 1000s
creation date earliest: 1000
creation date latest: 1100
current location: 237 Himalayan
creditline: Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund
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culture: Western Himalayas, possibly Ladakh or Lahul
technique: painted wood
department: Indian and Southeast Asian Art
collection: Tibetan Art
type: Sculpture
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measurements: Overall: 54.6 cm (21 1/2 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Year in Review for 1986
opening date: 1987-02-04T05:00:00
Year in Review for 1986. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 4-March 15, 1987).
title: Wisdom and Compassion: The Sacred Art of Tibet
opening date: 1992-09-18T04:00:00
Wisdom and Compassion: The Sacred Art of Tibet. Royal Academy of Arts, London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (September 18-December 13, 1992).
title: Asian Autumn: Later Korean Art
opening date: 1992-09-22T04:00:00
Asian Autumn: Later Korean Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 22, 1992-January 3, 1993).
title: Wisdom and Compassion: The Sacred Art of Tibet
opening date: 1996-05-01T00:00:00
Wisdom and Compassion: The Sacred Art of Tibet. Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn, Germany (May 1-August 31, 1996); Fundació "la Caixa", Barcelona, Spain (October 1, 1996-January 12, 1997).
title: Wisdom and Compassion: The Sacred Art of Tibet
opening date: 1998-01-16T00:00:00
Wisdom and Compassion: The Sacred Art of Tibet. Dr. Sun-Yat-Sen Memorial Hall, Taipei (January 16-May 1, 1998).
title: Object in Focus: Toward a Definition of an Early "Western Tibetan" Style
opening date: 2001-04-24T00:00:00
Object in Focus: Toward a Definition of an Early "Western Tibetan" Style. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (April 24-June 24, 2001).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
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PROVENANCE
(Spink & Son, Ltd., London, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
date: ?-1986
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, 1986-present
date: 1986-
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Eleventh-century western Tibet experienced a period of fervent reconstruction of Buddhist monasteries following the persecution of Buddhism during the 9th and 10th centuries. Art from Kashmir was avidly collected and copied as part of those reconstruction efforts. Kashmiri stylistic traits, such as the pinched waist and abdominal musculature seen in this rare wooden image, are from that critical time. The pioneering Italian Tibetologists Giusseppe Tucci and Egenio Ghersi discovered this sculpture during an expedition to Tibet from 1933 to 1935
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
"1992 Annual Report." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 80, no. 6 (1993): 215-95.
page number: Mentioned: p. 247
url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25161418
Rhie, Marylin M., Robert A. F. Thurman, and John Bigelow Taylor. Wisdom and Compassion: The Sacred Art of Tibet. New York: Tibet House New York in association with Harry N. Abrams, Inc, 1996.
page number: Reproduced: cat. no. 136, p. 343
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IMAGES
web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1986.6/1986.6_web.jpg
print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1986.6/1986.6_print.jpg
full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1986.6/1986.6_full.tif