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Bust of a Guardian King

CultureChinese
Dateca. 570-575 C.E.
MediumGray limestone
DimensionsOverall: 21 3/4 × 17 1/2 × 9 inches (55.25 × 44.45 × 22.86 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number53-48
On View
On view
Gallery Location
  • 204
Collections
Exhibition History

Art in Asia and the West, San Francisco Museum of Art. October-December 1957.

Provenance

Xiangtangshan, Hebei Province, China

Dikran G. Kelekian, Inc. (New York);

Purchased from Dikran G. Kelekian, Inc. by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1953.

Published References

Art in Asia and the West.  San Francisco Museum of Art, p. 20, also no. 14f (repro.).

Ross E. Taggart, George L. McKenna, and Marc F. Wilson, eds., Handbook of the Collections in The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Kansas City, Missouri, vol. II, Art of the Orient. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1973), 36 (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), 305 (repro.).

Zhang Lintang and Sun Di.  Xiangtangshan shiqu: liushi haiwai shike zaoxiang yanjiu (Beijing: Waiwen chubanshe, 2004), 216, fig. 66 (repro.).

Amy McNair, “The Ending of the Law and the Hope of Salvation: Some 6th Century Chinese Buddhist Sculptures in The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art” Orientations, Vol. 39, no. 8 (November/December 2008), 82 (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. 103 (repro.).

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