Gift from Sarita Hopkins Weeks in Memory of her Mother Sara Sessions Hopkins · The Cleveland Museum of Art
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Royal Female Donor
Creator not recorded by the museum
- Date
- c. 1500
- Medium
- bronze
- Dimensions
- Overall: 15.4 cm (6 1/16 in.)
- Country / context
- Nepal
- Movement / tradition
- South Asian arts
- Collection
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Pathway
- South Asian arts ↗
Carrying a lamp in one hand, this female figure draped in finery was probably included as the donor of a sculptural group. She wears a complex headdress consisting of a network of beads and plaques joined together, ending in a bell at her forehead and crowning a long cloth that reaches to her waist. Her position on a lotus flower may indicate the transcendent state she attained as a result of the karmic merit of her donation.
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