id: 159500
accession number: 1996.27
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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
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creation date: 900s
creation date earliest: 900
creation date latest: 999
current location: 244 Indian and Southeast Asian
creditline: John L. Severance Fund
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culture: Cambodia, probably Koh Ker
technique: bronze
department: Indian and Southeast Asian Art
collection: Cambodian Art
type: Sculpture
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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.)
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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).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
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PROVENANCE
(Natasha Eilenberg, Cornwall, CT, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
date: ?–1996
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 1996–
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Asia House Gallery, and Daguan Zhou. Khmer Sculpture. New York: Asia House Gallery, 1961.
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Lee, Sherman E. Ancient Cambodian Sculpture. New York: Asia Society; distributed by New York Graphic Society, 1969.
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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.
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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
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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
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