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A GRAY LIMESTONE STELE OF BUDDHA SHAKYAMUNI AND For an example in marble in the National Museum of Asian Art, Freer
ATTENDANT FIGURES and Sackler Galleries, see the website https://asia.si.edu/object/
Northern Qi Dynasty or later F1913.27/, accession no. F1913.27. This example depicts similarly
Of overall arched form with slightly incurving profile, the center outlined gingko leaves and apsara's above two Bodhisattva's at the
carved with an arch-shaped opening with the cross-legged Buddha center and a similar sculptural frieze on the lower register. The reverse
Shakyamuni flanked by two standing Bodhisattva's and beneath side also bears comparison in the treatment of the pierced branches
five small images of Buddha in the arch above, this is further flanked and columnar gingko-leafed Bodhi-tree trunks. See also two others,
by two taller standing Bodhisattva's on lotus supports below six one a white marble stele of the seated Bodhisattva Maitreya with
apsara's amidst leaves of the two large gingko-leafed Bodhi trees attendants in the Avery Brundage Collection, with a central figure of
and topped by a shrine flanked by small praying figures, themselves seated pensive Maitreya Buddha, dated to the 2nd year of Tianbao
above a seated Buddha flanked by boy acolytes and two dragons, (AD 551), and illustrated in Gems of Chinese Art from the Asian Art
all supported at the base on a rectangular block carved with a frieze Museum of San Francisco, Hong Kong, 1983, pp. 230-231, no. 101;
with two standing cross-legged Bodhisattva's at the ends and two another illustrated by Hsien-Ch'i Tseng and Robert Paul Dart in The
lions flanking two kneeling boys supporting a tall lotus-form censer at Charles B. Hoyt Collection in the Museum of Fine Arts: Boston, Vol.
the center, the narrow sides of the base with a single crowned seated 1, Boston, 1964, no. 155, depicting the Maitreya Buddha flanked
figure holding a lotus bud, the reverse side with similarly carved figures by four figures below the Bodhi tree; and another in the Museum fur
to each end and a plain center, the upper three-quarters of the reverse Ostasiatische Kunst, Cologne, with paired Bodhisattvas, illustrated
of the stele with the backs of the haloed Bodhisattva's flanking the by Denise Leidy and Donna Strahan, Wisdom Embodied, Chinese
wide columnar trunks of the spreading gingko-leafed Bodhi tree under Buddhist and Daoist Sculpture in the Metroplitan Museum of Art, New
which stands a tall central figure of another Bodhisattva's. York, 2010, p. 95, fig. 72.
20 1/4in (51.3cm) high; 12 1/4in (31cm) wide; 4 7/8in (12.2cm) deep
Whilst white marble from the Taihang mountains in Dingzhou, Hebei
$5,000 - 7,000 province was the primary material of choice for many of the free-standing
sculptures of the Northern Qi dynasty, other materials like limestone, are
北齊或更晚 青石坐佛五尊像 recorded. For example, see Denise Leidy and Donna Strahan, ibid, p.
195, fig. 126 for another Northern Qi limestone stele from Anhui province,
Provenance: dated 563 CE in the Anhui Provincial Museum, Hefei.
A Californian Collection
Sotheby's New York, 19 March 1997, lot 159
A Private New York Collection

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加州藏品
紐約蘇富比，1997 年 3 月 19 日，拍品編號 159
紐約私人藏

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