A limestone sculpture of Buddha

Qingzhou, Shandong Province
Northern Qi dynasty, 550–577 AD
Height: 37 ½ in (95 cm)

A gilded and painted limestone figure of a standing Amitabha Buddha with the right hand and feet missing.

For a limestone figure wearing a similar double-collared kasaya see Buddhist Sculptures – New Discoveries from Qingzhou, Shandong Province (Hong Kong Museum of Art: 2001), cat. no. 37, p 208.

Microscopic and chemical analysis have been performed by Orenda Laboratories and support the above dating.

  Published: Asiantiques, Chinese Works of Art (2009), cat. no. 98

Ref. 859456

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