Stele with Buddhas of the Past, Present and Future

Object Details

• Provenance

  To 1913

  Yamanaka & Company, New York to 1913 [1]

  From 1913 to 1919

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Yamanaka & Company, New York in 1913 [2]

  From 1920

  The Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]

  Notes:

  [1] Undated folder sheet note. See S.I. 404, Original Miscellaneous List, pg. 127.

  [2] See note 1.

  [3] The original deed of Charles Lang Freer's gift was signed in 1906. The collection was received in 1920 upon the completion of the Freer Gallery.

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Exhibition History

  Promise of Paradise (October 14, 2017 - ongoing)

  Promise of Paradise: Early Chinese Buddhist Sculpture (December 1, 2012 to January 3, 2016)

  Chinese Buddhist Sculpture in New Light (April 14, 2002 to September 8, 2003)

  Studies in Connoisseurship 1923-1983 (September 23, 1983 to March 1, 1984)

  Chinese Art (January 1, 1963 to March 6, 1981)

  Untitled Exhibition, Chinese Buddhist Sculpture, 1944 (March 13, 1944 to November 14, 1944)

  Stone Sculpture, Gallery 17, 1923 (May 2, 1923 to November 17, 1955)

• Previous custodian or owner

  Yamanaka and Co. 山中商会 (1917-1965) (C.L. Freer source)

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

• Origin

  Quyang, Hebei province, China

• Credit Line

  Gift of Charles Lang Freer

• Type

  Sculpture

• On View

  Freer Gallery 17: Promise of Paradise

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• Related Resources

  collections.si.edu

• Date

  500s

• Name

  Freer, Charles Lang, Yamanaka and Co.

• Place

  Quyang, China, Hebei province

• Topic

  Cats, Art, Animals, Maitreya Buddha, Chinese Art, Northern Qi dynasty (550 - 577), Anjali mudra, Prabhutaratna Buddha, Bodhisattva, Pagoda, Dragon

• Culture

  Buddhists, Chinese, Apsarases

• Object Type

  Sculpture

• On View

  Yes