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A RARE SANCAI-GLAZED TILEWORKS GROUP DEPICTING THE
BUDDHA’S PARINIRVANA
MING DYNASTY (1368-1644) PROVENANCE
The Buddha is shown lying on his right side with his hand supporting his head Thiel’s Los Angeles, California, 3 September 1968.
on a cushion, while being mourned by the three disciples kneeling behind him
EXHIBITED
on the top of the rectangular plinth which is decorated in high relief on the
On loan: Minneapolis, Minnesota, The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, May
front with a dragon amidst clouds, and on the reverse with two confronted
1981-January 1995.
phoenixes. The group is covered overall with green, cream and ochre glazes.
Compare the very similar sancai tileworks group depicting the Buddha’s
16Ω in. (42 cm.) high
parinirvana by Qiao Bin, dated to 1503, in the collection of The Metropolitan
$10,000-15,000 Museum of Art, 25.227.1, illustrated by Denise Patry Leidy, Donna Strahan,
et al., Wisdom Embodied: Chinese Buddhist and Daoist Sculpture in the
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art,
2010, p. 182, no. A55.
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