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Buddhist votive stele


西魏石刻造像碑
Chinese
Western Wei dynasty
A.D. 554

Medium/Technique Limestone with carved figures and engraved inscriptions
Dimensions 211.8 x 81.9 cm (83 3/8 x 32 1/4 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Henry E. Wetzel in memory of Denman Waldo Ross
Accession Number19.125
CollectionsAsia
ClassificationsSculpture

Provenance1913, Edgar Worch (dealer; b. 1880 - d. 1972), A. Worch Antiquités de la Chine, Paris [see note]. By 1913, Hervey E. Wetzel (b. 1888-d. 1918), Boston; 1919, gift of Hervey E. Wetzel to the MFA. (Accession Date: March 31, 1919)

NOTE: Lent to the Musée Cernuschi, Paris, 1913.