Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund · The Cleveland Museum of Art
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Standing Buddha
Creator not recorded by the museum
- Date
- 591
- Medium
- bronze
- Dimensions
- Overall: 46.5 x 15.4 x 13.4 cm (18 5/16 x 6 1/16 x 5 1/4 in.); without base: 35 x 13.8 x 10.5 cm (13 3/4 x 5 7/16 x 4 1/8 in.)
- Country / context
- India
- Movement / tradition
- South Asian arts
- Collection
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Pathway
- South Asian arts ↗
This bronze Buddha is exceptional, because it carries an inscription on its base that dates its manufacture to the year 591. According to the inscription, the sculpture was dedicated by a nun who was from a village in Nepal, but she probably commissioned it at a workshop in northern India.The Buddha's robe on this image has been left plain, without pleat lines to obscure the beauty of the contours of the body. Only the rippling scalloped clusters of the garment’s hem lend some sense of energy and subtle ornament to the composition.
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