Buddha's Previous Life as a Woodpecker: Javasakunda Jataka
c. AD 175–225
Maker Unknown
Indian and Southeast Asian Art
Buddha's Previous Life as a Woodpecker: Javasakunda Jataka, c. AD 175–225. Southern India, Andhra Pradesh, possibly Amaravati, Satavahana period (100s BC-AD 200s). Limestone; overall: 30.7 x 54.2 x 9.6 cm (12 1/16 x 21 5/16 x 3 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of George P. Bickford 1970.350 Scenes from the past lives of the Buddha were among the major themes found on early Buddhist monuments. This one exemplifies his acts of kindness and his intelligence in one of his past lives when he was a born as a woodpecker and helped dislodge a bone from a lion's throat.
- Maker/Artist
- Maker Unknown
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Formatted Medium
- limestone
- Medium
- limestone
- Dimensions
- Overall: 30.7 x 54.2 x 9.6 cm (12 1/16 x 21 5/16 x 3 3/4 in.)
- Departments
- Indian and Southeast Asian Art
- Accession Number
- 1970.350
- Credit Line
- Gift of George P. Bickford
- Exhibitions
- Year in Review: 1970, <em>The Sculpture of Greater India</em>. C.T. Loo & Co., New York, NY (1942)., <em>Buddhist Art. Detroit Institute of Arts, Twenty-Fourth Loan Exhibition, October, 1942</em>. Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI (October 1942).
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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