id: 153369 accession number: 1986.6 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1986.6 updated: 2023-03-14 12:01:31.438000 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 title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1000s creation date earliest: 1000 creation date latest: 1100 current location: 237 Himalayan creditline: Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund copyright: --- culture: technique: painted wood department: Indian and Southeast Asian Art collection: Tibetan Art type: Sculpture find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 54.6 cm (21 1/2 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- 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). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE (Spink & Son, Ltd., London, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: ?-1986 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, 1986-present date: 1986- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: 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 --- RELATED WORKS --- 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 url: --- 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