Seated figure of the Buddha Sakyamuni in high relief

Historical period(s)
Period of Division, 534-550
Medium
Stone
Dimensions
H x W x D: 131.4 x 82 x 32.6 cm (51 3/4 x 32 5/16 x 12 13/16 in)
Geography
China
Credit Line
Gift of Charles Lang Freer
Collection
Freer Gallery of Art
Accession Number
F1914.36
On View Location
Currently not on view
Classification(s)
Sculpture, Stone
Type

Buddhist tablet

Keywords
anjali mudra, Buddhism, China, Period of Division (220 - 589), varada mudra
Provenance

To 1914
Dikran G. Kelekian (1868-1951), Cairo, Egypt, Paris, France, and New York to 1914 [1]

From 1914 to 1919
Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Dikran G. Kelekian, New York in 1914 [2]

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

Notes:

[1] See Original Miscellaneous List, S.I. 516, pg. 148, 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) and Custodian(s)

Charles Lang Freer 1854-1919
Dikran Garabed Kelekian (C.L. Freer source) 1868-1951

Published References
  • Daisy Yiyou Wang. Charles Lang Freer and the collecting of Chinese Buddhist art in early-twentieth-century America. vol. 28, no. 3. .
  • Sadajiro Yamanaka. To-so seikwa [Selected Relics of T'ang and Sung Dynasties from Collections in Europe and America]. Osaka, 1928-1929. vol. 2, pl. 12b.
  • 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. vol. 3: pl. 284.
  • Osvald Siren. Quelques observations sur les imitations des anciennes sculptures chinoises. vol. 1, no. 1 Washington and Zurich. p. 71.
Collection Area(s)
Chinese Art
Web Resources
Google Cultural Institute
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