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紐約蘇富比2008年3月18日,編號239
Catalogue Note
The inscription can be translated as: 'On the dingyou day of the second month of the guise year, the second year of the Jiande
reign of the Great Zhou, Buddhist disciple Liu Kaiqian respectfully built a stone statue for the deceased father. [Established by]
son Guangsong and sister Gaofei.'
Dated Buddhist steles from this reign are rare. See a related stele of a slightly larger size, carved from a huanghuashi with a central
seated Buddha accompanied by two bodhisattvas, dated Jiande 1st year, corresponding to 572, illustrated in Saburo Matsubara,
Chinese Buddhist Sculpture. A study based on bronze and stone statues other than works from cave temples, Tokyo, 1966, pl. 190-
c, together with another stele, dated Jiande 3rd year (574), now in the Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University, pl. 192-a; and
a more elaborate stele of a larger size, also dated Jiande 3rd year, in the Shaanxi Museum, Xi'an, published in Shaanxisheng
bowuguan cang shike xuanji [Selection of stone carvings from the Shaanxi Museum], Beijing, 1957, pl. 23.
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