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Buddhist Stele Base
Image Not Available for Buddhist Stele Base

Buddhist Stele Base

CultureChinese
Date537 C.E.
MediumGrey limestone
DimensionsOverall: 11 × 28 × 37 inches (27.94 × 71.12 × 93.98 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number48-20
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Provenance

With C. T. Loo & Co., Paris and New York, stock card no. 80840, by March 1937-1948 [1];

Purchased from C. T. Loo & Co. by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1948.

NOTES:

[1] C. T. Loo/Frank Caro archive, Musée Guimet, Paris, copy of stock card in Nelson-Atkins curatorial files.

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