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Chinese

Relief Fragment from Tianlongshan, 550-577

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Description

Maker

  • Unknown

Culture

Chinese

Title

Relief Fragment from Tianlongshan

Year

550-577

Medium

Sandstone

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • sandstone

Dimensions

59.1 x 41.3 cm (23 1/4 x 16 1/4 inches)

Type

  • Sculpture

Credit

Mary B. Jackson Fund

Object Number

43.187

Projects & Publications

Publications

A Handbook of the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Chinese Treasures from the Permanent Collection

March 3 - April 23, 1989

Asian Art Galleries

This fragment is from Tianlongshan, a Buddhist cave temple in northeastern China. Carved over the course of two centuries into the sandstone cliffs outside the city of Taiyuan in Shanxi Province, Tianlongshan included a wooden temple and 24 shrine grottoes. This lively image of an adoring bodhisattva with swirling drapery was probably located in a niche containing sculptures of the Buddha and other attendants. Tianlongshan was partially dismantled in the early 20th century, and many fragments from the caves are found in U.S. collections today.

Rockefeller Asian Art Gallery

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