Pratyeka Buddha, between 550 and 577

  • Chinese

Limestone

  • Overall: 56 1/2 × 15 1/4 × 9 3/4 inches (143.5 × 38.7 × 24.8 cm) Including base: 82 × 19 1/2 × 19 1/2 inches, 1174 pounds (208.3 × 49.5 × 49.5 cm, 532.5 kg)

City of Detroit Purchase

29.444

On View

  • Buddhist Art, Level 1, North

Department

Asian Art

(C.T. Loo)

1929-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Burlington Magazine 25 (1914): pp. 40, 43 (ill.). Siren, Osvald. Chinese Sculpture. London, 1925, pl. 473A. Chinese Exhibition. Exh. cat., DIA. Detroit, 1929, cat. no. 70. Leidy, Denise Patry and Birgitta Augustin. “Buddha, Deva or Devotee? A Buddhist sculpture from Xiangtangshan in the Detroit Institute of Arts,” Orientations 44, no. 7 (2013): pp. 66-69.

Chinese, Pratyeka Buddha, between 550 and 577, limestone. Detroit Institute of Arts, City of Detroit Purchase, 29.444.