Standing Attendant Bodhisattva
CultureChinese
Dateca. 725 C.E.
MediumCoarse sandstone with traces of original coloring
DimensionsOverall: 26 × 12 × 4 1/4 inches (66.04 × 30.48 × 10.8 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number32-65/3
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DescriptionHeadless standing figure, with the body turned slightly to the right, the left foot raised as though walking, left knee bent, right arm pendant, holding a fragment of drapery, left arm raised, though broken off just below the elbow. Wears a long dhoti, scarves draped diagonally across the upper body, ribbons falling from the shoulder, a necklace with a pendant jewel, and an armlet and bracelet on the right arm. Traces of original polychrome.ProvenanceCave Four, Tianlongshan, Shanxi Province, China
Yamanaka & Co., New York,
Purchased from Yamanaka & Co. by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1932.
The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Handbook of the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1933), 96 (repro.).
Harry Vanderstappen and Marhylin Rhie, “The Sculpture of T’ien Lung Shan: Reconstruction & Dating” Artibus Asiae, vol. 27, no. 3 (1965): 194, fig. 10a (repro.).
Li Yuqun and Li Gong. Tianlongshan shiku (Beijing: Kexue chubanshe, 2003), Fig. 107(repro.).
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