id: 155644 accession number: 1990.84 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1990.84 updated: 2023-04-19 11:40:20.499000 Miniature Votive Stupa, AD 435. China, Gansu province, Northern Wei dynasty (386-534). Steatite; overall: 16.9 cm (6 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1990.84 title: Miniature Votive Stupa title in original language: 小型石塔 series: series in original language: creation date: AD 435 creation date earliest: 435 creation date latest: 435 current location: creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund copyright: --- culture: China, Gansu province, Northern Wei dynasty (386-534) technique: steatite department: Chinese Art collection: China - Northern Dynasties type: Sculpture find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 16.9 cm (6 5/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Notable Acquisitions opening date: 1991-06-07T04:00:00 Notable Acquisitions. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 7-September 15, 1991). title: Asian Autumn: New Objects/New Insights: Cleveland's Recent Chinese Acquisitions opening date: 1994-10-18T04:00:00 Asian Autumn: New Objects/New Insights: Cleveland's Recent Chinese Acquisitions. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 18-December 31, 1994). title: Intimate Rituals and Personal Devotions: Spiritual Art Through the Ages opening date: 2000-07-16T00:00:00 Intimate Rituals and Personal Devotions: Spiritual Art Through the Ages. Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, FL (organizer) (July 16, 2000-January 14, 2001). title: China through the Magnifying Glass: Masterpieces in Miniature and Detail opening date: 2022-12-11T05:00:00 China through the Magnifying Glass: Masterpieces in Miniature and Detail. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 11, 2022-February 26, 2023). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE (Compagnie de la Chine et des Indes, Paris, France, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: ?-1990 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1990- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: There are trigrams, three horizontal lines, broken or continuous, above each of the eight bodhisattvas in the stupa's lower section. digital description: wall description: This sutra pillar, inscribed with a sacred Buddhist text, belongs to a group of miniature stupas (jingta) that were found exclusively in the Gansu corridor, Northwest China. Ranging in date between AD 426–36, some of them bear the names of the lay Buddhist donors who commissioned them. A stupa is an architectural round structure built for the veneration of Buddhist relics. Miniature stupas may have commemorated the visit of a sacred site or represented donations to religious communities and sites. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Wilson, J. Keith. "Notable Acquisitions." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 78, no. 3 (1991): 63-147. page number: Reproduced and Mentioned: p. 128 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25161319 Wilson, J. Keith, and Anne E. Wardwell. "New Objects/New Insights: Cleveland's Recent Chinese Acquisitions." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 81, no. 8 (1994): 270-347. page number: Reproduced: p. 313, 315; Mentioned: pp. 313-20, 347 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25161465 Perkins, Larry David, Michael J. Bennett, Oleg Grabar, Robin Poynor, Dorothy C. Wong, and Hulleah Tsinhnahjinnie. Intimate Rituals and Personal Devotions: Spiritual Art Through the Ages. Gainesville, FL: University of Florida, Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, 2000. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: fig. 24, p. 25, p. 73 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1990.84/1990.84_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1990.84/1990.84_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1990.84/1990.84_full.tif