Buddhist stele

Object Details

• Provenance

  From at least 1925 to 1968

  Eugene Meyer (1875-1959) and Agnes E. Meyer (1887-1970), Washington, DC, and Mt. Kisco, NY [1]

  From 1968

  Freer Gallery of Art, given by Agnes E. Meyer, 1968 [2]

  Notes:

  [1] The stele is documented as a part of the Meyer collection in Osvald Sirén, Chinese Sculpture From the Fifth to the Fourteenth Century (London: Benn, Ltd., 1925), vol. 1, p. 48, vol. 2, pl. 183.

  [2] The stele is included in Agnes E. Meyer’s Deed of Gift, listed as no. 38 in the document’s Annex, dated July 24, 1967, copy in object file.

  It was accessioned to the Freer Gallery’s collection in 1968.

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Exhibition History

  Chinese Art—Stone Sculpture (September 1, 1979 to March 14, 1982)

  Eugene and Agnes E. Meyer Memorial Exhibition (September 25, 1971 to October 2, 1972)

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

• Previous custodian or owner

  Eugene and Agnes E. Meyer

• Origin

  China

• Credit Line

  Gift of Eugene and Agnes E. Meyer

• Type

  Sculpture

• Restrictions and Rights

  CC0 - Creative Commons (CC0 1.0)

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• Related Resources

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• Date

  500s

• Name

  buddha, Meyer, Eugene and Agnes E.

• Place

  China

• Topic

  Period of Division (220 - 589), Art, Chinese Art, Varada mudra, Abhaya mudra, Lotus, Stone, Bodhisattva, Northern Wei dynasty (386 - 534)

• Culture

  Buddhists, Chinese, Apsarases

• Object Type

  Sculpture