id: 159500 accession number: 1996.27 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1996.27 updated: 2025-05-06 12:06:30.611000 Durga as the Slayer of the Buffalo Demon, 900s. Cambodia, probably Koh Ker. Bronze; overall: 52 x 18.4 x 12.5 cm (20 1/2 x 7 1/4 x 4 15/16 in.); without tang: 44.8 cm (17 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund, 1996.27 title: Durga as the Slayer of the Buffalo Demon title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 900s creation date earliest: 900 creation date latest: 999 current location: 244 Indian and Southeast Asian creditline: John L. Severance Fund copyright: --- culture: Cambodia, probably Koh Ker technique: bronze department: Indian and Southeast Asian Art collection: Cambodian Art type: Sculpture find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 52 x 18.4 x 12.5 cm (20 1/2 x 7 1/4 x 4 15/16 in.); without tang: 44.8 cm (17 5/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Reinstallation of Krishna Lifting Mount Govardhan opening date: 2024-10-12T04:00:00 Reinstallation of Krishna Lifting Mount Govardhan. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 12, 2024-November 2, 2025). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE (Natasha Eilenberg, Cornwall, CT, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: ?–1996 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1996– footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Asia House Gallery, and Daguan Zhou. Khmer Sculpture. New York: Asia House Gallery, 1961. page number: url: Lee, Sherman E. Ancient Cambodian Sculpture. New York: Asia Society; distributed by New York Graphic Society, 1969. page number: url: Cleveland Museum of Art, “Cleveland Museum of Art Acquires Rare Egyptian Sculpture, Old Master Painting, Important Cambodian Bronze,” June 13, 1996, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives. page number: url: https://archive.org/details/cmapr4046 Czuma, Stanislaw J. "Slayer of the Buffalo Demon." The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine April 1997: pp. 8–9. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 8–9 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAMM1997-04/page/8 Bunker, Emma C., and Douglas Latchford. Khmer Bronzes: New Interpretations of the Past. Chicago: Art Media Resources, 2011. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 174, fig. 5.29 url: Bassoul, Aziz. Splendour of Khmer Iconography: Ancient Cambodian Art of the 5th to the 13th Centuries in Major World Museums and Private Collections. Beirut: Cedar of Lebanon Editions, 2018. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: pp. 58, no. 21 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1996.27/1996.27_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1996.27/1996.27_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1996.27/1996.27_full.tif