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Shri

900–950

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South India, Tamil Nadu, probably Pudokkatai, early Chola Dynasty, 10th Century

Granite

Overall: 138.4 x 41.9 cm (54 1/2 x 16 1/2 in.)

John L. Severance Fund 1963.104.1

Location

243 Indian and Southeast Asian

Description

One of Vishnu's two wives, Shri, the goddess of abundance and good fortune, holds the lotus flower in her left hand.

Provenance

?-1963

(William H. Wolff [1906-1991], New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)

1963-

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Citations

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. Reproduced: p. 235 archive.org

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. Reproduced: p. 235 archive.org

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. Reproduced: p. 298 archive.org

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. Reproduced: pp. 144-145

Dehejia, Vidya, and Thomas B. Coburn. Devi: The Great Goddess: Female Divinity in South Asian Art. Washington, D.C.: Published by the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution in association with Mapin Publishing, Ahmedabad and Prestel Verlag, Munich, 1999. Reproduced: cat. no. 46, p. 286

Exhibition history

Year in Review (1963). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 27, 1963-January 5, 1964).

Devi: The Great Goddess. Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Washington, DC (January 1-June 1, 1999).

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