Model Chariot (200s–100s BCE): Art, History and Details

Model Chariot (200s–100s BCE) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

This terracotta chariot may have held a figurine of a hero or divinity for use on a domestic altar or as a toy. The two-wheeled conveyance is decorated with rows of flowers and bells. A charioteer and two horses, now indistinct, appear to have been carved onto the front.

Object facts

• Title: Model Chariot
• Date: 200s–100s BCE
• Culture: India, Shunga period (185–78 BCE)
• Type: Sculpture
• Technique: terracotta
• Dimensions: Overall: 11.5 x 12.5 cm (4 1/2 x 4 15/16 in.)
• Collection: Indian Art - Sunga
• Department: Indian and Southeast Asian Art
• Accession number: 1984.46

Collection credit

Gift of Navin Kumar

Further reading listed by the museum

• Turner, Evan H. "The Year in Review for 1984." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 72, no. 2 (1985): 163-207.

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