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A GREY SANDSTONE HEAD OF BUDDHA Khmer, pre-Angkorean period, 7th Century
Description
- Gray sandstone
Provenance
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dudley P. Allen Fund, 1932.
Exhibited
"Ancient Cambodian Sculpture", Asi🐓a House Gallery, Fall 1969.
The Cleveland Museum of Art, before 20 Decemb♕er 1997–10 February🌟 1998 and 13 March 1998–24 May 2005.
Literature
Art Digest, New York, 15 December 1932, p. 17.
The American Magazine of Art, New York, January 1933, p. 50.
W.M. Milliken, 'Silver Jubilee Exhibition', in The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 28, no. 6, June 1941, illus. p. 100.
S. Lee and Detroit Institute of Arts, Buddhist Art. Detroit Institute of Arts, Twenty-Fiurth [sic] Loan Exhibition, October, 1942, p. 49, no. 29.
'Sculpture in India and China', in Liturgical Arts, New York, February 1946, p. 37–40.
W.M. Milliken, in Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958, no. 785.
M. Marcus, 'Buddha Sheltered by Mucalinda', in The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 52, no. 7, September 1965, p. 192.
Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966, p. 241.
S. Lee, Ancient Cambodian Sculpture, New York, 1969, p. 101, pl. 3.
Condition
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