Cleveland Museum of Art
Chair Legs and Panel
- Date
- 300s CE
- Medium
- ivory
- Culture
- Afghanistan, Begram (chair legs); India (panel), Kushan period (chair legs); Mughal dynasty (1526-1756) (panel)
- Department
- Indian and Southeast Asian Art
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 148056
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
This ivory carving was made to sheath wooden furniture made in India for trade along the Silk Road, which stretched from Rome to China. Indian ivory-faced furnishings--along with lacquer boxes from China and painted glass from Rome--were found in an extraordinary deposit of luxury goods at a site called Begram. The wood on which the ivory and lacquer were affixed has long disintegrated, and only the small pieces remain.
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Provenance & credit
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- Credit line
- Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund
- Provenance
- ?–1975: (Spink & Son, Ltd., London, England, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) | 1975–: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Part of a LinkedCulture topic
Indian Ivory Decorative CarvingsThese 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
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