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Young Woman with a Spear

c. AD 50–200

Afghanistan, Begram, Kushan period

(c. 80-320)

Ivory

Overall: 9 x 4 x 1.7 cm (3 9/16 x 1 9/16 x 11/16 in.)

Weight: 25.1 g (0.89 oz.)

Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund 1985.106

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Description

This smiling female figure has her hair tied up to one side, wound around with an embroidered strip of cloth. She stands akimbo with her upper garment removed and tied in a loose looped knot at her side. A broad girdle holds up her clinging, diaphanous skirt. She has the ideal female form of a young mother, and since she holds a spear, she may have served a protective function.

Provenance

?–1974

Frederick M. Mayer [1899–1974], New York, NY, by descent to his son, Robert J. Mayer

1974–?

Robert J. Mayer

?–1985

(Spink & Son, Ltd., London, England, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)

1985–

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Citations

Czuma, Stanislaw J., and Rekha Morris. Kushan Sculpture: Images from Early India. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1985. Reproduced and mentioned: cat. no. 47D, pp. 119–120

Turner, Evan H. "The Year in Review for 1985." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 73, no. 2 (1986): 26-71. Mentioned: no. 200, pp. 35 and 70; Reproduced: no. 200, p. 39 www.jstor.org

Hambly, Gavin. Women in the Medieval Islamic World: Power, Patronage, and Piety. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998. Mentioned and Reproduced: fig. 5, p. 62

Cleveland Museum of Art. The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014. Mentioned and reproduced: p. 202

Exhibition history

Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 245). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (December 18, 2013-May 12, 2014).

Kushan Sculpture: Images from Early India. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 13, 1985-January 5, 1986).

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