id: 93992 accession number: 1914.567 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1914.567 updated: 2024-03-26 01:56:05.683000 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, Cleveland, OH (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 * {'description': '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', 'opening_date': '1998-09-01T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE (Edgar Worch [1880–1972], New York, NY and Berlin, Germany, 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: --- 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