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AN INSCRIBED AND DATED ‘HUANGHUASHI’
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BUDDHIST STELE
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㜵 EASTERN WEI DYNASTY, DATED XINGHE THIRD YEAR,
CORRESPONDING TO 541
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̶ $ 1,200,000-1,500,000
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the # ame-shaped mandorla richly carved in high relief, centered with Shakyamuni Buddha seated in
vajraparyankasana on a rectangular platform with loose robes draping the body and falling in rhythmic folds over
台
the platform, the right hand raised in abhaya mudra and left hand in varada mudra, the face with a meditative
expression beneath the domed ushnisha, a lotus-form nimbus radiating behind the head, the Buddha # anked by
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bodhisattvas standing above seated lions, monks and worshipping " gures, with " ve apsaras in # ight, each playing
a musical instrument and trailing # uttering sashes, all raised on a tiered rectangular base supported on four legs,
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the upper register of the base carved in high relief with a central squatting " gure holding a boshan-form censer
overhead and # anked by kneeling monks, the front of the lower register and legs carved with a twenty-character
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inscription reading ‘Zhang Huiqi makes a statue for his mother Sun Sheng, fourth day of the twelfth month in the
third year of Xinghe’, corresponding to 541, wood stand with descriptive inscribed metal plate (3)
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Height 17 in., 43.2 cm
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PROVENANCE 䟅᪴
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Yamanaka & Co., Osaka, 1924. ᑢ᮶㋓◧⃺႘ࠊ䕍׼̭ඥ 㜵হ̶Ꭱ࡮ιᰵఈᬒ
EXHIBITED ҳ⎽
Shina ko bijutsu taikan/Catalogue of a Collection ᆞ͚ੳᰰ喑๔䭗喑1924Ꭱ
of Chinese Art, Yamanaka & Co., Osaka, 1924, cat.
no. 120. ᆂ㻪
Fo diao zhi mei. Bei chao fojiao shidiao yishu/ Ȩᩜ䗐ऑ㒻㶀๔㻭ȩ喑ᆞ͚ੳᰰ喑๔䭗喑
The Splendour of Buddhist Statuaries. Buddhist 1924Ꭱ喑㌕㮌120
Stone Carvings in the Northern Dynasties, National Ȩ҈䰂͸㒻 : ࡄ᱊҈᪆ⴠ䰂㬊㶀ȩ喑స⿸₤ट
Museum of History, Taipei, 1997, cat. no. 017. ࢇ➖乕喑झࡄ喑1997Ꭱ喑㌕㮌017
Zhonguo gu fo diao tezhan [Special exhibition of Ȩ͚సऑ҈䰂➦ᆂȩ喑㟞㨛㍐⿸᪴ࡃ͚ᓰ喑
Chinese ancient Buddhist sculptures], Hualien 㟞㨛喑1999Ꭱ喑㌕㮌011
County Cultural Center, Hualien, 1999, cat. no. Ȩࡰऑ҈䵼 : נ㊞䰂ݨ➦ᆂȩ喑倅䯱ጯ⿸
011. 㒻㶀乕喑倅䯱喑2000Ꭱ喑㌕㮌18
Qian gu fo yan. Chuantong diaoke tezhan/Ancient
Chinese Buddhist Sculpture II [Thousand ancient ܧ❵
Buddhist countenances. Special exhibition of Ȩ㝙㠒ᄣⰥ : 䲉䯲യ㫼͚స҈׼㬊㶀ȩ喑
classical sculpture], Kaohsiung Museum of Fine झࡄ喑2016Ꭱ喑䴮40 43喑㌕㮌6
Arts, Kaohsiung, 2000, cat. no. 18.

LITERATURE
Bore baoxiang Jingyatang cang Zhongguo
foxiang yishu/The Treasures of Chinese Buddhist
Sculptures, Taipei, 2016, pp. 40-43, cat. no. 6.

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