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Shakyamuni Buddha as Master of Gods and Men
Shakyamuni Buddha as Master of Gods and Men

Shakyamuni Buddha as Master of Gods and Men

CultureChinese
Dateca. 726-749 C.E.
MediumGray sandstone with traces of gesso and coloring
DimensionsOverall: 26 inches (66.04 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: acquired through the generosity of the Hall Family Foundation
Object numberF85-11
On View
On view
Gallery Location
  • 204
Collections
DescriptionFigure seated in "dhyanasana" pose, with left hand resting on knee, right forearm lacking, on circular base with repeated petals in relief; fitted wood pedestal. Robe arranged in stylized, ridged folds, draped off proper right shoulder, hair and ushnisha arranged in stylized swirlsExhibition History

A Bountiful Decade: Selected Acquisitions, 1977–1987, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, October 10–December 6, 1987, no. 37.

Nam June Paik, TV Buddha, Kansas City, Missouri, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Arts, September 19, 2000.

Provenance

Sotheby's, New York.  Sale 5338, Lot 8, 6/3/95

Purchased from Sotheby's New York by the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1985

Published References

William Watson, Art of Dynastic China (New York: 1981), pl.80 (repro.).

Catalogue Important Chinese Sculpture Sold for the Benefit of the J.T. Tai Foundation, no.5338 (New York, New York: Sotheby’s N.Y., June 3, 1985) (repro.).

Nelson-Atkins, Calendar of Events, New at the Nelson: Eight Century Buddha Bestowed to Museum (Kansas City, Missouri: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, March 1986), 2 (repro.).

Donald Hoffmann, “Nelson Purchases Sculpture,” The Kansas City Star, February 16, 1986, 8D, illus (repro.).

Archives of Asian Art, vol. XL (n.p.: The Asia Society, 1987), 84, fig. 17 (repro.).

Donald Hoffmann, “Dressed for Success ‘A Bountiful Decade’ Flatters Nelson’s Permanent Collection’,” The Kansas City Star, October 18, 1987, 1D, illus (repro.).

Roger Ward, ed., A Bountiful Decade: Selected Acquisitions, 1977-1987, exh. cat. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1987), cat. 37, 92 (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), 308 (repro.).

Nelson-Atkins, Calendar of Events, Public Programs Tempus Fugit: Time Flies (Kansas City, Missouri: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2000), 3 (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), 330, fig. 144 (repro.).

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