id:			153608
accession number:	1987.14.1
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1987.14.1
updated:		2023-04-20 11:07:12.750000

Naga Finial, 1100s. Cambodia, Angkor Wat Period, 12th century. Bronze; overall: 29.2 x 15.2 x 15.2 cm (11 1/2 x 6 x 6 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund 1987.14.1

title:				Naga Finial
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creation date:			1100s
creation date earliest:		1100
creation date latest:		1199
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creditline:			Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund
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culture:	Cambodia, Angkor Wat Period, 12th century
technique:	bronze
department:	Indian and Southeast Asian Art
collection:	Cambodian Art
type:		Metalwork
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measurements: Overall: 29.2 x 15.2 x 15.2 cm (11 1/2 x 6 x 6 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Beyond Angkor: Cambodian Sculpture from Banteay Chhmar
	opening date:   2017-10-14T04:00:00
	<i>Beyond Angkor: Cambodian Sculpture from Banteay Chhmar</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 14, 2017-March 25, 2018).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* The Cleveland Museum of Art (10/14/2017-01/07/2018): “Beyond Angkor: Cambodian Sculpture from Banteay Chhmar”

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PROVENANCE

	(Natasha Eilenberg, Cornwall, CT, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
	date: ?–1987
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1987–
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When members of the royal family or priesthood traveled in a public festival procession or to a temple like Banteay Chhmar to make offerings or participate in a ceremony, they would be carried in a palanquin, or a covered litter. Portable objects of veneration, such as bronze images or a sacred fire, were also carried on palanquins. The palanquins had wooden poles, hanging seats or raised platforms, and bronze fittings cast in intricate forms and gilt, lending the palanquins a sumptuous quality.<br><br>The royal palanquins were typically fitted with multiheaded, serpent-shaped finials at the ends of the poles and corners of the elevated platforms. <br><br><em>Naga</em> means serpent in Sanskrit, a language from India selectively appropriated by the Khmer in Cambodia. In their own indigenous mythology, the Khmer people trace their descent from a naga princess and a prince from the island of Java who journeyed to Cambodia. The naga remains a potent emblem for the Khmer nation to this day; it is ubiquitous on Cambodian monuments.
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