Fragment of Maitreya as a Meditating Bodhisattva
CultureChinese
Date541 C.E.
MediumFine, white marble with traces of original coloring
DimensionsOverall: 17 1/2 × 16 7/8 × 10 3/4 inches (44.45 × 42.85 × 27.31 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number40-34
On View
On viewGallery Location
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DescriptionSeated figure with upper part of body lacking. Broad mass of drapery on front of legs, with parallel incised fold lines and reiterated drapery pleats whose hemlines are arranged into symmetrically repeated scallops terminating in an upper ogive. Left foot rests on a lotus-petal cushion. Lower edge of base encircled with flattened lotus petals. On surface of the base, at either side, are fragments of swirling ends of drapery carved in relief. Long inscription engraved on rear of rectangular base.ProvenanceDingzhou, Hebei province, China
Dr. Otto Burchard;
Purchased from Dr. Otto Burchard by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1940.
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. I, 268a (repro.).
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