id: 156857
accession number: 1992.72
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Achala, King of the Wrathful Ones, as Vighnantaka, early 1200s. Mongolia, Tangut Xia, Khara Khoto (1032–1227). Thangka: silk tapestry; overall: 100.6 x 74.3 cm (39 5/8 x 29 1/4 in.); mounted: 111.1 x 83.8 x 7 cm (43 3/4 x 33 x 2 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1992.72
title: Achala, King of the Wrathful Ones, as Vighnantaka
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creation date: early 1200s
creation date earliest: 1200
creation date latest: 1225
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creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
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culture: Mongolia, Tangut Xia, Khara Khoto (1032–1227)
technique: thangka: silk tapestry
department: Textiles
collection: Textiles
type: Textile
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measurements: Overall: 100.6 x 74.3 cm (39 5/8 x 29 1/4 in.); Mounted: 111.1 x 83.8 x 7 cm (43 3/4 x 33 x 2 3/4 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Selected Acquisitions
opening date: 1993-02-09T05:00:00
Selected Acquisitions. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 9-April 11, 1993).
title: When Silk Was Gold: Central Asian & Chinese Textiles from the Cleveland and Metropolitan Museums of Art
opening date: 1997-10-19T00:00:00
When Silk Was Gold: Central Asian & Chinese Textiles from the Cleveland and Metropolitan Museums of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (October 26, 1997-January 4, 1998); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (October 26, 1997-January 4, 1998); The Metropolitan Museum of Art (organizer) (March 2-May 17, 1998); The Metropolitan Museum of Art (organizer) (March 2-May 17, 1998).
title: Himalayan art rotation
opening date: 2014-12-22T05:00:00
Himalayan art rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 22, 2014-November 2, 2015).
title: Faith and Empire: Art and Politics in Tibetan Buddhism
opening date: 2019-02-01T05:00:00
Faith and Empire: Art and Politics in Tibetan Buddhism. Rubin Museum of Art, New York, NY (organizer) (February 1-July 15, 2019).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
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PROVENANCE
(Sara Tremayne, Ltd., London, England, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
date: ?–1992
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 1992–
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Turner, Evan H. "The Year in Review for 1992." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 80, no. 2 (1993): 38–79.
page number: Reproduced: pp. 43–44; Mentioned: p. 43, 77
url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25161388
Wardwell, Anne E. "The "Kesi Thangka" of Vighnāntaka." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 80, no. 4 (1993): 136–39.
page number: Reproduced: p. 136; Mentioned: pp. 137–39
url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25161401
"1993 Annual Report." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 81, no. 6 (1994): 143–218.
page number: Mentioned: p. 154
url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25161457
Wardell, Anne E., "When Silk Was Gold", Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine. Vol. 37 no. 08, October 1997
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 4–5
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAMM1997-08/page/4
Watt, James C. Y., Anne E. Wardwell, and Morris Rossabi. When silk was gold: Central Asian and Chinese textiles. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art in cooperation with the Cleveland Museum of Art: Distributed by H.N. Abrams, 1997.
page number: Mentioned: cat. no. 24, pp. 90–94; Reproduced: p. 91, color detail p. 94; b&w detail p. 92; detail of reverse figure 17, p. 59
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Cunningham, Michael R., Stanislaw J. Czuma, Anne E. Wardwell, and J. Keith Wilson. Masterworks of Asian Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1998.
page number: Reproduced: pp. 62–63
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Amy Heller, "On the Development of the Iconography of Acala and Vighnantaka in Tibet," in Embodying Wisdom: Art, Text, and Interpretation in the History of Esoteric Buddhism. Rob Linrothe and Henrik Sorensen, eds. Copenhagen: Seminar for Buddhist Studies, 2001.
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"Highlights from North American Collections." IDP News: Newsletter of the International Dunhuang Project, no. 49-50, Summer 2017, pp. 4–7.
page number: Mentioned: p. 6
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Debreczeny, Karl. Faith and Empire: Art and Politics in Tibetan Buddhism. New York, NY: Rubin Museum of Art, 2019.
page number: Reproduced: fig. 4.7, 4.8, 4.9 and 4.10, pp. 82–83, 94–97
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Debreczeny, Karl. "Faith and Empire: Art, Power and the Right to Rule." Orientations 50, no. 2 (March/April 2019):114–123.
page number: Mentioned: p. 115, Reproduced: p. 116, fig. 3
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IMAGES
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