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Collection Online as of June 10, 2023

Fragment of Head of Buddha

AD 400s

India, Sarnath, Gupta Period

(320-647)

Sandstone

Overall: 16 cm (6 5/16 in.)

Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust 1946.492

Location

not on view

Provenance
?-1946
(Heeramaneck Galleries, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
1946-
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Citations
Marcus, Margaret F. “Sculptures from Bihar and Bengal.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 54, no. 8, 1967, pp. 240–262. Reproduced: p. 261 www.jstor.org
Begley, W. E. Indian Buddhist Sculpture in American Collections. Louisville, KY: J.B. Speed Art Museum, 1968. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 32
Exhibition history

Indian Buddhist Sculpture in American Collections. J.B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY (February 27–March 31, 1968).

Indian Buddhist Sculpture. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY (organizer) (February 27-March 21, 1968).

Source URL: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1946.492