id:			97677
accession number:	1917.320
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1917.320
updated:		2025-02-08 22:32:26.267000

Stele:  Maitreya as the Future Buddha, 300s–500s CE. China, Hebei, Six Dynasties period (317-581), Northern Qi dynasty (550-577). Marble; overall: 86.4 x 50.8 cm (34 x 20 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Worcester R. Warner Collection 1917.320

title:				Stele:  Maitreya as the Future Buddha
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creation date:			300s–500s CE
creation date earliest:		317
creation date latest:		577
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creditline:			Worcester R. Warner Collection
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culture:	China, Hebei, Six Dynasties period (317-581), Northern Qi dynasty (550-577)
technique:	marble
department:	Chinese Art
collection:	China - Southern Dynasties
type:		Sculpture
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measurements: Overall: 86.4 x 50.8 cm (34 x 20 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		The Tree of Life
	opening date:   1955-01-07T05:00:00
	<i>The Tree of Life</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 7-March 8, 1955).

	title:		Asian Autumn: New Objects/New Insights: Cleveland's Recent Chinese Acquisitions
	opening date:   1994-10-18T04:00:00
	<i>Asian Autumn: New Objects/New Insights: Cleveland's Recent Chinese Acquisitions</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 18-December 31, 1994).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	Purchased with funds from Worcester R. Warner [1846–1929] and Cornelia Blakemore Warner [1858–1947] by Langdon Warner [1881–1955], as agent of the Cleveland Museum of Art
	date: ?–1917
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1917–
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Sizer, Theodore. “A Note on Two Pieces of Chinese Sculpture in the Worcester R. Warner Collection.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 12, no. 2 (February 1925): 22–26.
	page number: 	Mentioned: pp. 23–26; Reproduced: p. 22
	url:		http://www.jstor.org/stable/25136823

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook.</em> Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.
	page number: 	Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 819
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n145

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 250
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n274

	Ho, Wai-Kam. “Three Seated Stone Buddhas.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 53, no. 4 (April 1966): 84–102.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 95; Mentioned: p. 96a, fig. 31
	url:		http://www.jstor.org/stable/25152098

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969</em>. 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. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 330
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n350

	Wilson, J. Keith, and Anne E. Wardwell. “New Objects/New Insights: Cleveland’s Recent Chinese Acquisitions.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 81, no. 8 (October 1994): 270–347.
	page number: 	Mentioned: no. 33, p. 347
	url:		https://www.jstor.org/stable/25161465

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