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Collection Online as of April 20, 2024
Heraldic Lion
900s
Location: 243 Indian and Southeast Asian
Did You Know?
The Champa kingdom occupied the central and south regions of present-day Vietnam. It was a powerful rival of the Khmer in Cambodia and the Viet of northern Vietnam.Description
The Cham adopted Indian Buddhist and Hindu religious systems, languages, and the practice of building stone temples and monasteries. The lion, which is ubiquitous on Indian monuments, was also incorporated as a protector at Cham sacred sites. In Champa, however, the roaring and rearing lion imagery is semihuman and distinctively aggressive and extroverted.This powerful figure rearing in a combative pose was formerly in the renowned Pan-Asian Collection of Southeast Asian art assembled during the 1960s and 1970s by one major collector, Christian Humann of the renowned Rothschild banking family.
- The Pan-Asian Collection, New York, NY?-1982(Robert Ellsworth [1929–2014], New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)1982-The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Pal, Pratapaditya. The Sensuous Immortals: A Selection of Sculptures from the Pan-Asian Collection. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1977. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 157Eilenberg, Natasha and Robert L. Brown. "The Sculptures." Société des Amis du Champa Ancien, no. 6, December 1999. Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 8, no. 11
- The Year in Review for 1982. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 5-February 6, 1983).The Sensuous Immortals. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA (October 25, 1977–January 15, 1978); Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA (March 9–April 1978); Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO (May 26–July 30, 1978); Nelson Atkins Gallery, Kansas City, MO (September 15–October 29, 1978).
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https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1982.146