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May 29, 2012

Head of Male Deity, possibly Aiyanar

first half of the 600s

Central Thailand, Phetchabun province, possibly Si Thep

Sandstone

Overall: 26.1 cm (10 1/4 in.)

John L. Severance Fund 1970.11

Location

not on view

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The head belongs to a figure that may have been one of a pair with the kneeling male figure, formerly in the collection of John D. Rockefeller 3rd, now in the Asia Society Museum.

Provenance

?-1970

(Peter Marks, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)

1970-

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Citations

"New Oriental art galleries at Cleveland." Apollo: A Journal of the Arts. August 1970, Vol. 92, pp. 148-151. Mentioned and Reproduced: fig. 1, p. 148

Lee, Sherman E. “The Year in Review for 1970.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 58, no. 2, 1971, pp. 22–71. Reproduced: no. 159; Mentioned: p. 71 www.jstor.org

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. Reproduced: p. 316 archive.org

Guy, John, et al. Lost Kingdoms: Hindu-Buddhist Sculpture of Early Southeast Asia. New York, NY: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2014. Reproduced: cat. no. 104, pp. 184-185

Exhibition history

Year in Review: 1970. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 10-March 7, 1971).

Lost Kingdoms of Early Southeast Asia: Hindu-Buddhist Sculpture 5th to 8th Century. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (organizer) (April 14-July 27, 2014).

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