The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of November 30, 2023

Seated Ascetics

AD 300s

This object has related works. See Archer on Horse; Deer; Seated Ascetics

India, Kashmir, Harwan, 4th century

Terracotta

Overall: 50.8 x 30.6 x 5.2 cm (20 x 12 1/16 x 2 1/16 in.)

Edward L. Whittemore Fund 1959.131

Location

not on view

Provenance
Harwan, Kashmir (from tile pavement and platform in the courtyard of apsidal temple, Harwan)
?–1959
(Samuel Eilenberg, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
1959–
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. 230 archive.org
Lee, Sherman E. "Clothed in the Sun: A Buddha and a Surya from Kashmir." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 54, no. 2 (1967): 42-63. Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 52, fig. 9 www.jstor.org
The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. Reproduced: p. 230 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. 292 archive.org
Exhibition history

Yoga: The Art of Transformation. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (June 22-September 7, 2014).

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