1981.24: Standing Male Donor

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1981.24

Title

Standing Male Donor

Classification

Sculpture

Work Type

figurine, sculpture

Date

3rd-4th century

Places

Creation Place: Central Asia, Afghanistan

Period

Kushan period, c.100 BCE-250 CE

Culture

Afghan

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/202280

Location

Location

Level 1, Room 1740, Early Chinese Art, Arts of Ancient China from the Neolithic to the Bronze Age

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Physical Descriptions

Medium

Stucco with traces of polychromy; Gandharan style, perhaps from Hadda, Afghanistan

Technique

Stucco

Dimensions

H. 37 x W. 13.5 x D. 7.5 cm (14 9/16 x 5 5/16 x 2 15/16 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Ernest B. and Helen Pratt Dane Fund for Asian Art in memory of Benjamin Rowland Jr.

Accession Year

1981

Object Number

1981.24

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Contact

am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Kristin A. Mortimer and William G. Klingelhofer, Harvard University Art Museums: A Guide to the Collections, Harvard University Art Museums and Abbeville Press (Cambridge and New York, 1986), no. 66, p. 65
• Harvard Art Museums: In Your Hands, Harvard Art Museums and GILES (Cambridge, 2025)

Exhibition History

• S424: Indian and Southeast Asian Sculpture, Harvard University Art Museums, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 10/20/1985 - 08/01/2008
• 32Q: 1740 Early China I, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 06/18/2024 - 01/01/2050
• Women in South Asian Art, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 08/26/2017 - 01/07/2018

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