Statue
C445
Location: On Display in the Asia Galleries
From: China | Hebei | Xiangtangshan
Curatorial Section: Asian
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Object Number
C445
Current Location
Asia Galleries - On Display
Culture
Chinese | Buddhist
Provenience
China | Hebei | Xiangtangshan
Period
Northern Qi Dynasty
Date Made
550 - 577 CE
Section
Asian
Materials
Limestone (uncertain) | Marble (uncertain) (Stone)
Technique
Carved
Iconography
Lion
Description
Carved stone sculpture of seated lion on a stone base with an open mouth. The mane, tail, beard and curly hair on the haunches are carved in low relief. Originally part of a pair, this lion would have been placed along the entrance to a tomb as a guardian or as a protector at the gate of a temple.
Credit Line
Purchased from Worch of Paris, 1925
Other Number
Getz 26 - Other Number
Current & Past Exhibitions
Bibliography
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Jayne, Horace H. "The Chinese Collections of The University Museum: A Handbook of the Principal Objects ." The University Museum Bulletin 9, no. 2-3. (1941): 9-50. See: Fig. 2
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Jayne, Horace H. "Chinese Art at the University Museum." Parnassus 11, no. 1. (01 Jan 1939). Page/Fig./Plate: 7-11
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Bachhofer, Ludwig. "Zur Geschichte der chinesischen Plastik vom VIII-XIV Jahrhundert." Chinesische Plastik 14. (1938).
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Fernald, Helen E. "The Sculpture." The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs 68, no. 394. (1936): 22-30. See: Plate II, Fig. C
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Jayne, Horace H. "The Museum's Loan to Burlington House ( for International Exhibition of Chinese Art held in London 1935-36) ." The University Museum Bulletin 6, no. 1. (1935): 17-21. See: Plate 6
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Royal Academy of Arts. Catalogue of the International Exhibition of Chinese Art . London: Royal Academy of Arts, 1935. See: Pg. 213, No. 2493; Pg. 230, 2493 (illustration)
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Siren, Osvald. Chinese sculpture from the fifth to the fourteenth century; over 900 specimens in stone, bronze, lacquer and wood, principally from northern China
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Ashton, Leigh. An Introduction to the Study of Chinese Sculpture
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Getz, John. The University Museum Exhibition of Oriental Art
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Bishop, Carl W. "Notes on Chinese Statuary ." The Museum Journal VII, No. 3. (1916): 152-177. Page/Fig./Plate: 162, 162,figure 164
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