id:			141749
accession number:	1965.33
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1965.33
updated:		2025-02-09 03:11:17.488000

Mi-lê:  Maitreya Buddha, 683. China, Tang dynasty (618-907). Limestone; overall: 33 x 20.4 cm (13 x 8 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1965.33

title:				Mi-lê:  Maitreya Buddha
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creation date:			683
creation date earliest:		683
creation date latest:		683
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creditline:			Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
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culture:	China, Tang dynasty (618-907)
technique:	limestone
department:	Chinese Art
collection:	China - Tang Dynasty
type:		Sculpture
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CREATORS

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measurements: Overall: 33 x 20.4 cm (13 x 8 1/16 in.)
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	inscription:	translation of inscription on the base:  "On the eighth day of the second month of the second year of Yung-ch'un, the bhiksu Tz'u-(?) of the temple Hu-chung-ssu had this image of Maitreya and two attendant bodhisattvas made for the devotion of his whole family."  (wkh)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Year in Review: 1965
	opening date:   1965-10-27T04:00:00
	<i>Year in Review: 1965</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 27-November 14, 1965).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	Professor P. L. [Paul-Louis] Mercanton [1876–1963], Lausanne, Switzerland
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	(Sotheby's, London, England. 24 March 1964 sale, Lot no. 34. Sold to Moss)
	date: 24 March 1964
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			* <div><!--block-->Sotheby's catalogue for 24 March 1964 listing of prices and buyers' names: Lot 34. Moss. £<br>100. $280.00.</div>
			
			
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	(Robert Rousset [1901–1982], New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
	date: ?–1966
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1966–
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Sotheby's, London. <em>Important Chinese Porcelain and Works of Art</em>. 24 March 1964 sale.
	page number: 	p. 13, Lot no. 34
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	Lee, Sherman E. “Year in Review.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 52, no. 9 (November 1965): 124–157.
	page number: 	Mentioned: no. 80, p. 154; Reproduced: no. 80, p. 145
	url:		https://www.jstor.org/stable/25152069

	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: pp. 98, 99a, and 100
	url:		https://www.jstor.org/stable/25152098

	Matsubara, Saburo 松原三郎. "Shiju Hattai Butsu (Forty-eight Buddhist Images) and their Lineage." <em>Kobijutsu </em>古美術, no. 19 (October 1967).
	page number: 	Reproduced: pl. 41.
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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. 5, p. 1042.
	url:		

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