Location

not on view

Description

Scenes from the past lives of the Buddha were among the major themes found on early Buddhist monuments. This one exemplifies his acts of kindness and his intelligence in one of his past lives when he was a born as a woodpecker and helped dislodge a bone from a lion's throat.

Provenance

at least by 1942–?

C. T. Loo, New York, NY

?–1970

George and Clara Louise Gehring Bickford [1903-1985], Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art

1970–

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Citations

Pope, John. An Exhibition of the Sculpture of Greater India, A Fully Illustrated Catalogue. New York: C.T. Loo & Co, 1942. Mentioned: cat. no. 16, pp. 31–32;

Lee, Sherman E. Buddhist Art. Detroit Institute of Arts, Twenty-Fourth Loan Exhibition, October, 1942. Detroit: Detroit Institute of Arts, 1942. Mentioned: cat. no. 6, p. 21; Reproduced: cat. no. 6, p. 41

Miniatures and Small Sculptures from India. University Gallery, April 10th Thru May 29th, 1966. Gainesville: College of Architecture and Fine Arts, University of Florida, 1966.

Stone, Elizabeth Rosen. The Buddhist Art of Nāgārjunakoṇḍa. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass Publishers, 1994. Mentioned and Reproduced: fig. 256

Exhibition history

The Sculpture of Greater India. C.T. Loo & Co., New York, NY (1942).

Buddhist Art. Detroit Institute of Arts, Twenty-Fourth Loan Exhibition, October, 1942. Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI (October 1942).

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

The Cleveland Museum of Art

Buddha's Previous Life as a Woodpecker: Javasakunda Jataka

Southern India, Andhra Pradesh, possibly Amaravati, Satavahana period

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