The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of September 23, 2023

Section from a Portable Shrine

AD 100s

Pakistan, Gandhara, Kushan period

(c. 80-320)

Gray schist

Overall: 14.6 x 6 cm (5 3/4 x 2 3/8 in.)

John L. Severance Fund 1973.76

Location

not on view

Description

Figures of deities who protect children are featured in this relief carving. A form of Skanda holding a bird and a flower stands next to a regal yakshi with pointed rodent or elephant ears. A diminutive figure who may be a child is shown kneeling at his feet. Above, the six-headed mother goddess Shashthi sits next to Skanda, holding the spear.

Provenance
?–1973
(Peter Marks, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
1973–
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Citations
"The Year in Review for 1973." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 61, no. 2 (1974): 31-78. Mentioned: no. 176, p. 78; Reproduced: no. 176, p. 58 www.jstor.org
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. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 80, p. 162
Koizumi, Yoshihide, “Study on the Portable Shrines in Northwest India.” Proceedings of the Tokyo National Museum 東京国立博物館紀要, vol. 35 (2000), pp. 87-158. Reproduced: fig. 9
Exhibition history

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

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