Cleveland Museum of Art

Female Attendants

Date: 700s
Medium: ivory
Culture: India, Kashmir
Department: Indian and Southeast Asian Art
Institution: Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID: 146956

From the Cleveland Museum of Art record

These elegant female figures would have originally been in a portable, wooden shrine with a central ivory depicting the Buddha. One holds a chaurī , or flywhisk, a frequent attribute of attendants, while the one originally on the left holds a lotus. Both display a graceful contraposto ( tribhanga ). Their rich jewelry contrasts successfully with the softness of their flesh. Traces of turquoise paint remain on their bodies, suggesting the presence of fabric.

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Credit line: John L. Severance Fund
Provenance: ?–1972: (Spink & Son, Ltd., London, England, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) | 1972–: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

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Indian Ivory Decorative Carvings
These objects are all intricately carved ivory pieces from various regions of the Indian subcontinent, including decorative panels, brackets, combs, and sculptural elements dating primarily from the Mughal period and ear
33 objects from 3 institutions