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Asian Art
Sakyamuni Votive Stele
12th century
Micaceous white marble of Hebei with polychrome
60 × 26 in., 540 lb. (152.4 × 66.04 cm, 244.94 kg)
Gift of Winston F. C. Guest, B.A. 1927
1955.57.1
Geography:
China
Status:
Not on view
Culture:
Chinese
Period:
Jin dynasty (1115–1234)
Classification:
Sculpture
Provenance:
Yamanaka, Kyoto, 1907; the Reverend Theodore Pitcairn, Philadelphia; Winston Frederick Churchill Guest, (1906–1982) New York; gift in 1955 to Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
Bibliography:
George J. Lee, Selected Far Eastern Art in the Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1970), 204, no. 411, ill.
Jan Kleijkamp, Ellis Monroe, and Alfred Salmony, Chinese Sculpture, exh. cat. (New York: Morrill Press, 1944), no. 52–53, pls. 25–26.
Note: This electronic record was created from historic documentation that does not necessarily reflect the Yale University Art Gallery’s complete or current knowledge about the object. Review and updating of such records is ongoing.