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Shakyamuni Buddha Seated on the Lion Throne
Shakyamuni Buddha Seated on the Lion Throne

Shakyamuni Buddha Seated on the Lion Throne

CultureChinese
Dateearly 5th century C.E.
MediumGilt bronze
DimensionsOverall: 5 × 3 × 1 3/4 inches (12.7 × 7.62 × 4.45 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number51-25
On View
On view
Gallery Location
  • 204
Collections
Exhibition History

Exhibition for the Third Annual Conference on Asian Affairs, University of Nebraska Art Galleries, October 29-November 28, 1954.

Chinese Buddhist Bronzes, Chinese Art Society of America (exhibited at China House, New York City), May 6-June 5, 1959, no. 2.

Oriental art exhibition, Washington University, St. Louis, January 23-March 4, 1966.

Provenance

With C. T. Loo & Co., stock no. 87236, by September 1941-1951 [1];

Purchased from C. T. Loo, Inc.. by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1951.

NOTES:

[1] C. T. Loo/Frank Caro archive, Musée Guimet, Paris, copy of stock card in Nelson-Atkins curatorial files. C. T. Loo & Co. was incorporated as C. T. Loo, Inc. in 1949.



Published References

Chinese Buddhist Bronzes, Chinese Art Society of America (exhibited at China House, New York City), May 6-June 5, 1959, no. 2 (repro.).

Capolavori nei Secoli (Milano, no. 27, May 26, 1962), 35 (repro.).

Hugo Munsterberg, Chinese Buddhist Bronzes (Tokyo, 1967), pl. 2 (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), 30 (repro.).

Laurence Sickman, “Monsters and Elegance: Nine Centuries of Chinese Sculpture” Apollo, special issue for the Asian art collection in the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Vol. XCVII, no. 133 (March 1973), 33, no. 2 (repro.).

Ulrich Von Schroeder, Indo-Tibetan Bronzes (Hong Kong: 1981), 498, pl. 141A (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), 303 (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), 309, fig. 85 (repro.).

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