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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.53.18
Title
Bodhisattva Manjusri (Wenshu Pusa) Seated Under a Canopy and Holding a Ruyi Scepter
Classification
Sculpture
Work Type
sculpture, relief
Date
534-550
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, China, Shanxi province, Tianlongshan
Period
Eastern Wei, 534-550
Culture
Chinese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/204423

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Sandstone with traces of pigment; from Tianlongshan Cave 3, near Taiyuan, Shanxi province
Dimensions
73 x 39 cm (28 3/4 x 15 3/8 in.)
in its mount: 106 x 55.5 x 12.2 cm (41 3/4 x 21 7/8 x 4 13/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Grenville L. Winthrop, New York (by 1943), bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1943.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.53.18
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Buddhist figure seated under a canopy facing proper left. Low sandstone relief from cave 3 at Tianlongshan, Shanxi province.

Publication History

  • Osvald Sirén, Chinese Sculpture from the Fifth to the Fourteenth Century, E. Benn (London, 1925), Pl. 218
  • Osvald Sirén, Chinese Sculpture from the Fifth to the Fourteenth Century, E. Benn (London, 1925), p. 58
  • Csilla Felker and John Dennis, "Caves at Tien Lung Shan: A Technical Study of Pigments on Stone" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, 1982), Unpublished, pp. 1-16 passim
  • Tianlongshan Caves Project, website, Center for the Art of East Asia, The University of Chicago, accessed April 7, 2021, https://tls.uchicago.edu/single-sculpture/166

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