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accession number: 1914.567
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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
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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
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culture: China, Hebei province, Eastern Wei dynasty (534-550)
technique: limestone
department: Chinese Art
collection: China - Northern Dynasties
type: Sculpture
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CREATORS
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measurements: Overall: 77.5 x 44.4 cm (30 1/2 x 17 1/2 in.)
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inscription: Fully inscribed on reverse
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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).
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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
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PROVENANCE
(Edgar Worch [1880-1972], New York, NY and Berlin, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
date: ?-1914
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The Cleveland Museum of Art
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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.
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RELATED WORKS
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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