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Shakyamuni Buddha
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Shakyamuni Buddha

CultureChinese
Dateca. 460-480 C.E.
MediumGilt bronze
DimensionsOverall: 6 1/4 × 4 × 2 3/4 inches (15.88 × 10.16 × 6.99 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number31-137/29
On View
On view
Gallery Location
  • 204
Collections
DescriptionSeated image of Shakyamuni, in a draped robe with one shoulder bare, seated in yoga position (cross-legged), with right hand raised in abhaya mudra (do not fear), left hand holding a manuscript.Exhibition History

Exhibition of bronzes. Albright Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY. January 31-February 28, 1937.

Exhibition of Chinese bronzes in American collections. Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC. October 13-November 27, 1938.

Buddhist exhibition, The Detroit Institute of Arts, 1942. University of Michigan. 1950.

Provenance

Zie Sooey Koo;

Purchased from Zie Sooey Koo by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, in 1931.

Published References

Master Bronzes, Albright Gallery, Buffalo, NY, Feb 1937, no. 28 (repro.).

Chinese Bronzes, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1938, no. 261 (repro.).

Buddhist Art, Detroit Institute of Arts, 1942, p. 52 (repro.).

Chinese Buddhist Bronzes, University of Michigan, Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, april 1950, no. 10; ill. No. 2 (repro.).

Silva-Vigier, Life of Buddha (1955), pl. 82 (repro.).

Ross E. Taggart, ed., Handbook of the Collections in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 4th ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1959), 186 (repro.).

M. Bussagli, Bronzi Cinesi (Milano: 1966), pl. 67, p. 146 (repro.).

Hugo Munsterberg, Sculpture of the Orient (New York: 1972), pl. 74 (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), p. 30 (repro.).

Laurence Sickman, “Monsters and elegance: nine centuries of Chinese sculpture” Apollo.  March 1973, Vol. XCVII, no. 133, special issue for the Asian art collection in the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, fig. 3, p. 33 (repro.).

Ulrich Von Schroeder, Indo-Tibetan Bronzes (Hong Kong: 1981), pl. 141 C; text p. 498 (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), p. 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), fig. 89, p. 310 (repro.).

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