Section from a Portable Shrine
AD 100s
Maker Unknown
Indian and Southeast Asian Art
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.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1973.76 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.
- Maker/Artist
- Maker Unknown
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Formatted Medium
- gray schist
- Dimensions
- Overall: 14.6 x 6 cm (5 3/4 x 2 3/8 in.)
- Departments
- Indian and Southeast Asian Art
- Accession Number
- 1973.76
- Credit Line
- John L. Severance Fund
- Exhibitions
- Kushan Sculpture: Images from Early India
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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