id:			153386
accession number:	1986.71
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1986.71
updated:		2025-02-09 04:26:47.291000

Male Fertility Divinity, Possibly Shiva, c. 120–200 CE. Northern India, possibly Mathura, Kushan period. Terracotta; overall: 17.3 cm (6 13/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund 1986.71

title:				Male Fertility Divinity, Possibly Shiva
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creation date:			c. 120–200 CE
creation date earliest:		100
creation date latest:		299
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creditline:			Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund
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culture:	Northern India, possibly Mathura, Kushan period
technique:	terracotta
department:	Indian and Southeast Asian Art
collection:	Indian Art - Kushan, Mathura
type:		Sculpture
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measurements: Overall: 17.3 cm (6 13/16 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Year in Review for 1986
	opening date:   1987-02-04T05:00:00
	<i>Year in Review for 1986</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 4-March 15, 1987).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* {'description': '<em>Kushan Sculpture: Images from Early India</em>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 13, 1985-January 5, 1986).', 'opening_date': '1985-11-13T00:00:00'}

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PROVENANCE

	(Ariane Dandois-Faye, Paris, France, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
	date: ?–1986
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1986–
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CITATIONS

	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: fig. 53, p. 126
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	Turner, Evan H. "The Year in Review for 1986." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 74, no. 2 (1987): 38-79.
	page number: 	Mentioned: no. 235, p. 79
	url:		https://www.jstor.org/stable/25159974

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