Cleveland Museum of Art

Walking Buddha

Date

700s

Medium

ivory

Culture

India, Kashmir, 8th century

Department

Indian and Southeast Asian Art

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

Small, delicately carved ivory plaques were set into wooden shrines, carved with architectural motifs. This sculpted plaque would have once flanked a central seated Buddha, with a similar standing or walking Buddha on the opposite side. The pleated garment folds derived from Greco-Roman styles adopted in the ancient region of Gandhara, west of Kashmir, where this sculpture was made.

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