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Impo rtant Chinese Art
New York |23 Sep 2020 | 09:00 AM EDT

Lot 603

A LIMESTONE STELE OF A BUDDHIST TRIAD, NORTHERN ZHOU DYNASTY, DATED JIANDE 2ND
YEAR, CORRESPO NDING TO 573
Estimate: 40,000 - 60,000 USD

A LIMESTONE STELE OF A BUDDHIST TRIAD
NORTHERN ZHOU DYNASTY, DATED JIANDE 2ND YEAR, CORRESPONDING TO 573
北周建德二年（573年） 石灰石雕菩薩三尊像

well carved with a seated Bodhisattva in the center, depicted with a downcast gaze directed at the hands resting upon the
knees, draped in loose overflowing robes tied at the waist and cascading down the legs, the exposed chest bejeweled with an
ornamental collar, wearing a flat crown with a band of circular adornments attached to ribbons falling beyond the shoulders,
flanked by two acolytes with their hands at the chests, all framed with a curved mandorla, above a rectangular block carved with
an inscription, wood stand (2)

銘文：
大周建德二年癸巳朔二月丁酉 佛弟子劉開乾作 為亡父造石像一區 息廣宋 姊高妃 父□州□城郡之劉文勝 母郭和嫗

Height 13 in., 33 cm

Provenance
Collection of Walter Beck (1864-1954).
Collection of Dr. Edwin E. Gordon (1927-2015).
Sotheby's New York, 18th March 2008, lot 239.

來源

https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2020/important-chinese-art?locale=en 156/435