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PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF A LADY
1531
A MAGNIFICENT LARGE GREY LIMESTONE STANDING
FIGURE OF BUDDHA
NORTHERN QI DYNASTY (AD 550-577) PROVENANCE:
The slender, elegant figure is shown standing on top of a tapering J. T. Tai, New York, 1964.
socle with right hand raised in abhaya mudra, and the left hand lowered Arthur M. Sackler Collections, New York.
as it holds the edge of his diaphanous, layered robes that cling to the Acquired from the above in 1974.
contours of the body as they fall to just above the ankles, the graceful
EXHIBITED:
folds indicated by single or double carved lines. The face is carved with
New York, Low Memorial Library, Columbia University, The Columbia
a serene expression, and the hair is dressed in whorl-like curls that also
University Exhibition of Art of the T'ang Dynasty and its Antecedents
cover the domed ushnisha.
from the Sackler Collections, March 1967, entrance.
67¡ in (171.3 cm.) high
LITERATURE:
H. Munsterberg, Sculpture of the Orient, New York, 1972, pl. 83.
$400,000-600,000
北齊 石灰岩釋迦牟尼佛立像
Fig. 1 Standing Buddha, Northern and Southern Dynasties.
period, 6th century, Matsuoka Museum of Art (side view)
