id:			105881
accession number:	1923.97
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1923.97
updated:		2025-12-07 02:40:06.722000

Head of Buddha, c. 570. China, Hebei province, northern Xiangtangshan caves, South cave, Northern Qi dynasty (550-577). Limestone; overall: 62.2 x 54.6 cm (24 1/2 x 21 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of C. T. Loo, 1923.97

title:				Head of Buddha
title in original language:	佛頭
series:				
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creation date:			c. 570
creation date earliest:		550
creation date latest:		590
current location:		241C Chinese Buddhist Sculptures
creditline:			Gift of C. T. Loo
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culture:	China, Hebei province, northern Xiangtangshan caves, South cave, Northern Qi dynasty (550-577)
technique:	limestone
department:	Chinese Art
collection:	China - Southern Dynasties
type:		Sculpture
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measurements: Overall: 62.2 x 54.6 cm (24 1/2 x 21 1/2 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Sources of Japanese Buddhist Art
	opening date:   1978-04-29T05:00:00
	<i>Sources of Japanese Buddhist Art</i>. Nara National Museum, Nara 630, Japan (organizer) (April 29-June 10, 1978).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	C.T. Loo 盧芹齋 [1880–1957], Paris, France, and New York, NY, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art
	date: ?–1923
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1923–
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Ho, Wai-Kam. "Three Seated Stone Buddhas." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 53, no. 4 (1966): 84–102.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 86, fig. 6; Mentioned pp. 86 and 86a
	url:		http://www.jstor.org/stable/25152098

	Ho, Wai-kam. "Notes on Chinese Sculpture from Northern Ch'i to Sui Part I: Two Seated Stone Buddhas in the Cleveland Museum." <em>Archives of Asian Art</em> 22 (1968): 6–55.
	page number: 	Mentioned and Reproduced: fig. 7, p. 11
	url:		http://www.jstor.org/stable/20111000

	<em>Nihon Bukkyō bijutsu no genryū </em>[日本仏敎美術の源流 = Sources of Japanese Buddhist Art]. Nara, Japan: Nara National Museum, Showa 53 [1978].
	page number: 	cat. no. 63
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	<em>Nihon Bukkyō bijutsu no genryū </em>[日本仏敎美術の源流 = Sources of Japanese Buddhist Art]. Kyōto: Dohōsha, Shōwa 59 [1984].
	page number: 	Mentioned and Reproduced: pl. 18
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	Guo li gu gong bo wu yuan [National Palace Museum]. <em>Hai wai yi zhen. fo xiang</em> [外創珎. 佛像= Chinese art in overseas collections. Buddhist sculpture]. Taibei Shi: Guo li gu gong bo wu yuan, 1990.
	page number: 	Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 62
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	Sun, Di 孙迪, editor. <em>Zhongguo liu shi hai wai Fo jiao zao xiang zong he tu mu</em> [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. 3, p. 476
	url:		

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