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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Apr 2, 2018 | Sotheby's | Hong Kong | Curiosity IV | 3066 | $****** - ****** | A RARE LIMESTONE VOTIVE STELE |
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91 cm (35.83 in)
L. Wannieck, Paris.
Sotheby's London,15th December 1987, lot 42.
Sotheby's London, 17th December 1996, lot 170.
Osvald Siren, Chinese Sculpture: From the Fifth to the Fourteenth Century, Paris and Brussels, 1926, vol. 4, pl. 509.
of rectangular section, the substantial slab carved with straight sides and a rounded upper edge, all resting sturdily on a rectangular plinth, one side centred with a main niche supporting a figure of Shakyamuni Buddha seated on a lotus base, flanked by Ananda and Kasyapa as well as two bodhisattvas, the upper section of the stele elaborately depicting a stupa resting atop a lion mask, the mythical beast portrayed suspending in its mouth tasselled garlands upheld by apsarases and dragons, the stupa engraved with the tian (sky) character, all atop a design of a pair of lions flanking an incense burner engraved to the lower section of the stele, each of the two shorter sides further carved with a Bodhisattva standing atop a lotus base within a niche, flanked by engraved votive inscriptions, the flat reverse similarly engraved with the characters Da Tang framed by dragons atop Buddha seated between two standing disciples, the sides of the rectangular plinth engraved with inscriptions, including one to the main side dating to the first year of the Tiaolu reign (in accordance with 679) and delineating the family members of the patron, Lady Li Tuanya, traces of green and red polychromy
