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251 A MARBLE FIGURE OF
54 SOTHEBY’S SURASUNDARI AS APSARAS OR
YAKSHI
India, Chalnkya, Western Rajputana
or Gujarat, 11th / 12th Century

Height: 28 in. (71.1 cm)

PROVENANCE
Ernst Diez, 27 October 1930.
Stella Kramrisch Collection.
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Charles W.
Harkness Endowment Fund, 1930

EXHIBITED
“East Indian Sculpture from Various American
Collections”, Toledo Museum of Art, 7–28
January 1940.
The Cleveland Museum of Art, before 2 December
1997–15 January 1998 and 30 January 1998–24
May 2005.

LITERATURE
H. Hollis, ‘Indian Sculpture’, in The Bulletin of
the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 17, no. 10,
December 1930, p. 190–3, illus. p. 198.
Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958,
no. 759.
East Indian Sculpture from Various American
Collections; A Selection of Sculptural Works by
Unknown but Outstanding East Indian Sculptors,
Toledo Museum of Art exh. cat., 1940, cat. no. 18.

$ 25,000-35,000

251

A SANDSTONE STELE DEPICTING
TWO GANAS
North Central India, Gupta period,
5th/6th Century

Height: 17 ⅞ in. (45.7 cm)

PROVENANCE
George P. Bickford, acquired 18 December 1970.
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of George P.
Bickford, 1970.

LITERATURE
S. Lee, ‘The Year in Review for 1970’, in The
Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 58,
no. 2, p. 70, no. 155.

$ 5,000-7,000