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Time: 7 pm – 8:30 pm IST / 9:30 am -11 am EST
Even objects that have been part of the Harvard Art Museums collections for decades can pose new puzzles. In 1941, Grenville L. Winthrop purchased from Yamanaka & Company a 14-inch-tall painted “stucco” head, which he later left to the museums in his 1943 bequest. The fourth- to fifth-century fragment was likely part of a larger sculpture of a bodhisattva from the Afghan site of Hadda, which was excavated in the 1930s. Recent technical studies of the sculpture, including a CT scan, have raised questions around the clay-based material and the pigments that decorate it. The team is studying this head in collaboration with an international group of specialists on clay-based sculpture of the region and hope to engage in dialogue with colleagues from the Kabul Museum.
Panelists:
Dr. Katherine Eremin, Harvard University, Straus Center for Conservation, Conservation scientist
Angela Chang, Assistant Director, Conservator of Objects and Sculpture, Head of Objects Lab, Harvard Art Museums
Deborah Klimburg-Salter, Professor, Center for Research and Documentation Inner and South Asia, Institute for Art History, University of Vienna
Moderator:
Anupam Sah, Head of Art Conservation, Research, and Training, CSMVS Museum, Mumbai
