AN INSCRIBED AND DATED RED SANDSTONE BUDDHIST STELE

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23.03.2023 08:30UTC -04:00
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Los 820 | AN INSCRIBED AND DATED RED SANDSTONE BUDDHIST STELE
AN INSCRIBED AND DATED RED SANDSTONE BUDDHIST STELE

NORTHERN WEI DYNASTY (AD 386-534), DATED BY INSCRIPTION TO AD 500

The main side of the stele is carved in high relief with a figure of Buddha shown seated in dhyanasana and right hand held open in abhaya mudra. The adjacent sides are carved in more shallow relief, with one showing the Buddha standing between two bodhisattvas below a pair of apsaras holding a lotus flower, and the other showing the Buddha seated in meditation above two bodhisattvas in conversation. The fourth side is carved with a dedicatory inscription and the entire pillar is surmounted by a four-sided peaked roof.

10 1/4 in. (26 cm.) high





Provenance

Acquired in Hong Kong, 1998.

J. J. Lally & Co., New York, no. 2824.



Literature

J. J. Lally & Co., Buddhist Sculpture from Ancient China, New York, 2017, no. 3.



Exhibited

New York, J. J. Lally & Co., Buddhist Sculpture from Ancient China, 10-31 March 2017.
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