id: 93992 accession number: 1914.567 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1914.567 updated: Stele with Sakyamuni and Bodhisattvas, 537. China, Hebei province, Eastern Wei dynasty (534-550). Limestone; overall: 77.5 x 44.4 cm (30 1/2 x 17 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust 1914.567 title: Stele with Sakyamuni and Bodhisattvas title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 537 creation date earliest: 537 creation date latest: 537 current location: 241C Chinese Buddhist Sculptures creditline: Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust copyright: --- culture: China, Hebei province, Eastern Wei dynasty (534-550) technique: limestone department: Chinese Art collection: China - Northern Dynasties type: Sculpture find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 77.5 x 44.4 cm (30 1/2 x 17 1/2 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Fully inscribed on reverse translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Traditions and Revisions: Themes from the History of Sculpture opening date: 1975-09-24T04:00:00 Traditions and Revisions: Themes from the History of Sculpture. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (September 24-November 16, 1975). title: Images of Enlightenment: Gems from Buddhist Art of Asia opening date: 1998-09-26T00:00:00 Images of Enlightenment: Gems from Buddhist Art of Asia. Art Museum, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (September 26-December 15, 1998). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * In the Footsteps of Buddha: An Iconic Journey from India To China. University Museum and Art Gallery, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong (September-December 1998). cat. no. 93 --- PROVENANCE (Edgar Worch [1880-1972], New York, NY and Berlin, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: ?-1914 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art date: 1914- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: According to the inscription, this stele was commissioned in 537 by Yuan'ning, prince of the Gaoping branch of the imperial Wei family, in memory of his deceased consort, in the hope that it would bring her to the Western paradise. It was carved by one of the finest craftsmen in the Eastern Wei capital of Ye in Hebei province. Here, the Buddha's robe shows a careful arrangement of patterned drapery (large U-shaped folds and scallop-shaped folds at the hem), combining linear rhythms with an ordered symmetry. Soaring flames edge the mandorla (almond-shaped halo), echoing the linear eloquence of Chinese painting. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS "Recent Accessions." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 1, no. 2 (1914): 1-3. page number: Reproduced: p. 4; mentioned: p. 5 url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25135978 MacLean, J. Arthur. "A Buddhist Trinity." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 1, no. 3 (1914): 2-3. page number: Reproduced: p. 3; mentioned: pp. 2, 4, url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25135991 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1925. page number: Reproduced: p. 49 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook_80839/page/n50 Sizer, Theodore. "Chinese Sculpture." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 13, no. 9, 1926, pp. 196-203 page number: Reproduced: p. 203 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25136972 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1928. page number: Reproduced: p. 62 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1928/page/n66 Sirén, Osvald. A History of Early Chinese Art. London: E. Benn, Limited, 1929. page number: Reproduced: II, pl. 200, A.B. url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 815 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n144 Saburō, Matsubara 松原三郎. "Eastern Wei Sculpture-its characteristics and its connection with Japanese Tori Style sculpture of the Asuka Period [東魏雕刻論]" Bijutsu Kenkyū [ 美術硏究 = The journal of art studies], no. 202 (Jan. 1959), pp. 17-33. page number: Reproduced: pl. 5 url: Matsubara, Saburō. Chūgoku Bukkyō chōkoku shi kenkyū [= Chinese Buddhist sculpture: a study based on bronze and stone statues other than works from cave temples]. Tokyo: Yoshikawa Kobunkan,1961. page number: Reproduced: p. 111, 112, fig. 86A and B url: Lee, Sherman E. A History of Far Eastern Art. New York: H.N. Abrams, 1964. page number: Mentioned: p. 143; Reproduced: fig. 166, p. 142 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. page number: Reproduced: p. 250 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n274 Selected Works: Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1967. page number: Reproduced: pl. 53 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. page number: Reproduced: p. 250 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n274 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 330 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n350 Berthier, François. Genesis of Japanese Buddhist sculpture . [Paris]: Publications orientalistes de France, 1979. page number: Reproduced: pl. 95 url: Linduff, Katheryn M. Tradition, Phase, and Style of Shang and Chou Bronze Vessels. New York: Garland Pub, 1979. page number: Reproduced: plate 5, p. 254 url: Guo li gu gong bo wu yuan National Palace Museum. Hai wai yi zhen. fo xiang [外創珎. 佛像= Chinese art in overseas collections. Buddhist sculpture]. Taibei Shi: Guo li gu gong bo wu yuan, 1990. page number: Reproduced: p. 37 url: Lee, Sherman E., and Naomi Noble Richard. A History of Far Eastern Art. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1994. page number: Reproduced: p. 160, fig. 203 url: Wilson, J. Keith, and Anne E. Wardwell. "New Objects/New Insights: Cleveland's Recent Chinese Acquisitions." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art vol. 81, no. 8 (1994): 270-347. page number: Reproduced: p. 318; Mentioned: p. 317-18, 320 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25161465 Watson, William. The Arts of China to AD 900. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995. page number: Reproduced: fig. 236, p. 144 url: Ghose, Rajeshwari, Puay-peng Ho, and Chuntang Yang. Fa xiang chuan zhen: gu dai fo jiao yi shu [法相傳真 : 古代佛教兿術; In the footsteps of the Buddha: an iconic journey from India to China]. Hong Kong: Xianggang da xue mei shu bo wu guan, 1998. page number: Reproduced: cat. no. 93, p. 301 url: May, Sally Ruth, Jane Takac, and Barbara J. Bradley. Knockouts: A Pocket Guide. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2001. page number: Reproduced: no. 78, p. 74; Mentioned: p. 119 url: Sun, Di, editor. Zhongguo liu shi hai wai Fo jiao zao xiang zong he tu mu [中国流失海外佛教造像总合图目 = Comprehensive Illustrated Catalogue of Chinese Buddhist Statues in Overseas Collections]. Beijing: Wai wen chu ban she, 2005. page number: vol. 2, pp. 404-405 url: Franklin, David and C. Griffith Mann. Treasures from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2012. page number: Reproduced: pp. 56-57 url: Chung, Anita. "Re-Emergence: New Chinese Galleries and Art Acquisitions of The Cleveland Museum of Art." Orientations 44, no. 8 (November/December 2013): 64-75. page number: Reproduced: p. 64, fig 1 url: Lin, Nancy. "5000 Years of Korean Art: Exhibitions abroad as cultural diplomacy." Journal of the History of Collections Vol. 28, no. 3 (2016): 383-400. page number: Reproduced: P. 396, fig. 9 url: Giuffrida, Noelle. Separating Sheep from Goats: Sherman E. Lee and Chinese Art Collecting in Postwar America. Oakland, California: University of California Press, 2018. page number: Reproduced: p. 78, fig. 39 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1914.567/1914.567_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1914.567/1914.567_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1914.567/1914.567_full.tif