Standing Woman (c. 50–200 CE): Art, History and Details

Standing Woman (c. 50–200 CE) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.

The work and its context

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

This ivory carving was made In India as a facing for wooden furniture, which disintegrated, leaving only the ivory veneers. Most of the imagery is life-affirming and auspicious, as seen in the image of a young woman. 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.

Object facts

• Title: Standing Woman
• Date: c. 50–200 CE
• Culture: Afghanistan, Begram, Kushan period
• Type: Ivory
• Technique: ivory
• Dimensions: Overall: 8 x 3.3 cm (3 1/8 x 1 5/16 in.)
• Collection: Indian Art - Kushan
• Department: Indian and Southeast Asian Art
• Accession number: 1985.105

Collection credit

Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund

Further reading listed by the museum

• Czuma, Stanislaw J., and Rekha Morris. Kushan Sculpture: Images from Early India. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1985.
• Turner, Evan H. "The Year in Review for 1985." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 73, no. 2 (1986): 26-71.

View the collection record

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