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Source Description
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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localId
148056
label
Chair Legs and Panel
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object
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1
Source metadata
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148056
contentType
object
title
Chair Legs and Panel
description
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.
date
300s CE
rights
CC0
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
wikidata
Q79928002
genreSpecific
Ivory
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1
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import
dimensionsRaw
Overall: 43.8 cm (17 1/4 in.)
cul
Afghanistan, Begram (chair legs); India (panel), Kushan period (chair legs); Mughal dynasty (1526-1756) (panel)
accession
1975.103
Source extras
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ivory
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Chair Legs and Panel, 300s CE. Afghanistan, Begram (chair legs); India (panel), Kushan period (chair legs); Mughal dynasty (1526-1756) (panel). Ivory; overall: 43.8 cm (17 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund, 1975.103
collection
Indian Art - Kushan
citations
citation
Tardy, J. <em>Les ivoires; évolution décorative du Ier siècle à nos jours</em>. Paris: Tardy, 1972.
page_number
Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 161, figs. 1-3.
citation
Lee, Sherman E. "The Year in Review for 1975." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 63, no. 2 (1976): 31-71.
page_number
Mentioned: no. 169, p. 71; Reproduced: no. 169, p. 52.
citation
Czuma, Stanislaw J., and Rekha Morris. <em>Kushan Sculpture: Images from Early India</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1985.
page_number
Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 49, p. 121.
creditline
Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund
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2026-05-29 07:36:29.905000
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148056
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Indian and Southeast Asian Art
coll
Indian Art - Kushan
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ivory
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0
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photo
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