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Buddha Head - 57.176 The Metropolitan Museum of Art |
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Buddha Head - 57.176
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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| Scanned On: |
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| Added On: |
2005-11-16 |
| Vertex Count: |
5,516,285 |
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5 - Done |
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| Status: |
Done |
| Last Modified: |
2009-08-16 |
| Modified By: |
Lec, Khi |
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| File Source: |
pass_one_holefilled.xdl |
Comments:
model1.xdl - basic shell registration, global registration 1:4 - 6ab537e4668f3e0b830016d72826c4d6 - 12/27/2006
model2a.xdl - basic cleanup, global registration 1:4 - 051658c43fe41890864cac1e7f323471 - 12/27/2006
pass_one.xdl - 86ab01acd1d19bdd120ee0ff8880983c - small holes in the ear and in the hair area
Coordinate System (x,y,z)
Transform by input file: pass_one_holefilled.xdl
Rotate: (179.9874,-0.7247,180.9983) deg
Translate: (-18.4473,-0.0320,-2335.6961) mm
Bottom of model not scanned, object was on pedestal.
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Height: 39.4 cm (16 inches)
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Width: 25.4 cm (10 inches)
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Depth: 30.5 cm (12 inches)
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Weight:
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Metropolitan Museum of Art 57.176
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Roothbert, 1957
China, Northern Qi dynasty (550-577)
Limestone
Published:
Angela Howard, Abraham Ho et al, Chinese Buddhist Sculpture from the Wei through the T'ang Dynasties Taipei: National Museum of History, 1983), no. 15.
Howard, Archives of Asian Art, 49 (1996), p. 12, fig. 12.
The head is skillfully carved and finished with curled hair and covering most of the head but for a roughly rectangular area on the back. Though the head was not attached to the wall of the cave, it probably was set so that it was not seen from the back. The handsomely modeled face has large eyes and straight rather long nose. There is yellowish pigment and white base remaining in places. The neck has been filled in at the bottom right to make a straight base.
Howard has proposed that this head is from Cave 2 at the Southern Group (which she dated mistakenly to the year 562 on the basis of a Tang inscription) and to the Northern Group of caves. The Buddha in Cave 2 which had its original head shown in early photographs is more rounded in shape, larger in size, and it was attached to the back of the niche. A large fragment of this head still is preserved at the cave site. The Metropolitan head is probably from one of the upper level caves at Southern Xiangtangshan. It has a mate in the Freer/Sackler Gallery.
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