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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.53.28
Title
Standing Bodhisattva
Classification
Sculpture
Work Type
sculpture, figure
Date
550 - 577
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, China
Period
Northern Qi, 550-577
Culture
Chinese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/204047

Physical Descriptions

Medium
White marble with polychromy and traces of gilding
Dimensions
sculpture with attached circular base and tang (not visible): H. 103.5 x W. 25.4 x D. 14.6 cm (40 3/4 x 10 x 5 3/4 in.)
display dimensions sculpture with separate lotus base): H. 110.5 x W. 27 x D. 26.7 cm (43 1/2 x 10 5/8 x 10 1/2 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.53.28
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Osvald Sirén, Chinese Sculpture from the Fifth to the Fourteenth Century, E. Benn (London, 1925), Pl. 326 A and B
  • Osvald Sirén, Chinese Sculpture from the Fifth to the Fourteenth Century, E. Benn (London, 1925), pp. 87-88
  • Osvald Sirén, "Chinese Marble Sculptures of the Transition Period", Bulletin of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities (Stockholm, Sweden, 1940), no. 12, pp. 481-482, plate III a

Exhibition History

  • S426: Chinese Buddhist Cave Sculpture, Harvard University Art Museums, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 10/20/1985 - 04/30/2008

Verification Level

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