Buddha Seated on a Lotus Throne

CultureChinese

DateNorthern Qi dynasty (550-577 C.E.)

MediumWhite marble

DimensionsOverall: 25 × 11 inches (63.5 × 27.94 cm)

Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust

Object number59-15

On View

On view

Gallery Location

Collections

East Asian Art

Terms

Exhibition History

Exhibition of Far Eastern Fine Arts, Nagoya, Japan, April 17 – May 5, 1958 (Showa 33), no. 442.

Provenance

Alice Spalding Bowen (Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.A.);

Purchased from Alice Spalding Bowen by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1959.

Published References

Exhibition of Far Eastern Fine Arts, Nagoya, Japan, April 17 – May 5, 1958 (Showa 33), no. 442 (repro.).

Roger Ward and Patricia J. Fidler, eds., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection (New York: Hudson Hills Press, in association with Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1993), 306 (repro.).

Matsubara Saburō 松原三郎, Chūgoku Bukkyō chōkoku shiron 中国仏教彫刻史論 (Tōkyō : Yoshikawa Kōbunkan, Heisei 7 1995), Plate Vol. II, 506b (repro.).

Deborah Emont Scott, ed., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection, 7th ed. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2008), 316, fig. 98 (repro.).

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