Cleveland Museum of Art
Apsara Bracket
- Date
- 900s
- Medium
- Sandstone
- Culture
- Vietnam (Champa)
- Department
- Indian and Southeast Asian Art
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
This celestial being is a resident of heaven, ornamented as a goddess with tiered crown, heavy earrings, and broad necklace. She reverently proffers an offering, possibly a lotus bud. This figure would have been part of the embellishment of a Cham temple. Her bust emerges from an architectural element that may have formed the end of a balustrade or ceiling bracket. The light-colored spots are due to lichen and other organic growths that have hardened over time, the result of outdoor weathering.
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