- Provenance
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To 1912
Yamanaka & Company, New York to 1912 [1]From 1912 to 1919
Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Yamanaka & Company, New York in 1912 [2]From 1920
Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]Notes:
[1] Undated folder sheet note. See Original Miscellaneous List, S.I. 368, pg. 115, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.
[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.
- Previous Owner(s)
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Yamanaka and Co. (C.L. Freer source)
Charles Lang Freer 1854-1919
- Description
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The Buddha Maitreya (Mile); tip of halo and fingers of extended right hand missing.
Limestone; dark gray with lighter weathering and earth encrustations and traces of pigment.
- Published References
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- Osvald Siren. Chinese Sculpture from the Fifth to the Fourteenth Century: Over 900 Specimens in Stone, Bronze, Lacquer and Wood, Principally from Northern China. 4 vols., London. pl. 272.
- Collection Area(s)
- Chinese Art
- Web Resources
- Google Cultural Institute
- Rights Statement
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Copyright with museum