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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION
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A RARE PAINTED MARBLE BUDDHIST STELE figure flanked by two or four attendant figures below a pair of bodhi trees, the
NORTHERN QI DYNASTY (AD 550-577) branches of which intertwine to form a mandorla, all of which is raised on a
The stele is carved with a central standing bodhisattva with his right hand plinth carved with various figures and lions flanking a central incense burner.
raised in abhayamudra and left hand lowered, flanked by a pair of attendants, A comparable stele with a central figure of seated Maitreya Buddha, dated to
and a further pair of bodhisattvas, all below two intertwined bodhi trees the 3rd year of Tianbao (AD 552), in the Ohara Museum of Art, is illustrated in
backing the figures. The stele is supported on a rectangular base, carved on Hai-wai yi-zhen: Chinese Art in Overseas Collections - Buddhist Sculpture (II),
the front with a censer flanked by a pair of attendants and a pair of lions. Taipei, 1990, p. 51, no. 47. Another related stele, with a central figure of seated
pensive Maitreya Buddha, dated to the 2nd year of Tianbao (AD 551), in the
13 in. (33 cm.) high, padauk stand
Avery Brundage Collection, is illustrated in Gems of Chinese Art from the Asian
Art Museum of San Francisco, Hong Kong, 1983, pp. 230-231, no. 101.
$60,000-80,000

PROVENANCE: 私人珍藏
Galaxie Art (B. K. Wong), Hong Kong, 23 November 1987.
北齊 石雕佛五尊立像
This handsome sculpture belongs to a group of distinctive openwork steles 來源:
carved from creamy white marble produced in Hebei province during the Galaxie Art (王炳權), 香港, 1987年11月23日
Northern Qi period, mid-sixth century. This group typically features a central

(reverse)
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