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Western Paradise - F1921.2 Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery |
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Western Paradise - F1921.2
Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
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Southern Site - Cave 2
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2006-01-26 |
| Vertex Count: |
6,210,143 |
| Stage: |
5 - Done |
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Done |
| Last Modified: |
2009-10-18 |
| Modified By: |
Lec, Khi |
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pass_one_holefilled.xdl |
Comments:
model1.xdl -
model2a.xdl -
pass_one_merged50.xdl - 1c8f29715c883fd8db0da8708dad2703 - 10/23/2008 - model was decimated because it was too large to merge without crashing the software.
Coordinate System (x,y,z)
Transform by input file: pass_one_holefilled.xdl
Rotate: (-8.1989,32.6659,2.4468) deg
Translate: (289.0223,-0.4075,534.5360) mm
Hole in back, object not scanned from back, as object was mounted on the wall.
Bounding box size (x,y,z): (3345.6711,1613.1231,161.6659) mm
Approximate size (x,y,z): (335,161.5,16.5) cm
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Height: 159 cm., 62 1/2 inches
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Width: 334 cm. 131 3/4 inches
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Published:
Leigh Ashton, Introduction to the Study of Chinese Sculpture (London, 1924), pl. 22:2.
Osvald Siren, Chinese Sculpture (London, 1925), plate 192.
Langdon Warner, "The Freer Gift of Eastern Art to America," Asia, 1923, f. 23, p. 591
Mizuno and Nagahiro, 1937, p. 22-23, fig. 16 bottom.
Ludwig Bachhofer, A Short History of Chinese Art (New York: Pantheon, 1946), fig. 65.
Siren, "Indian and Other Influences in Chinese Sculpture," Studies in Chinese Art and Some Indian Influences, (London 1938) p.32-33 and pl. 11 an 12
Sickman and Soper, The Art and Architecture of China (London: Penguin Books, 1956), pl. 42.
Alexander Soper, " South Chinese Influence on the Buddhist Art of the Six Dynasties Period, BMFEA, 32 (1960), p. 98?
Freer Gallery of Art, Masterpieces of Chinese and Japanese Art: Freer Gallery of Art Handbook, 1976, 38.
Watson, Art of Dynastic China, 1981, pl. 366.
Howard, Orientations, 1993, 97, fig. 6
Howard, Archives of Asian Art, 49, (1996), 18, fig. 22.
Yan Juanying,Toho Gakuho, 10 (1998), 415, fig. 43.
Zhang and Sun 2004, 186, fig. 2.
This relief frieze depicts an assembly of mostly bodhisattva figures gathered around a central Buddha who sits under a canopy decked with strings of large jewels. The Buddha’s right hand is raised in abhayamudra. Seated bodhisattvas crowd around him and others stand at the sides. Above the group there are other bodhisattvas and Buddhas and flying divinities seated on lotus blossoms among richly flowering branches of trees.
Two tall palatial buildings stand at the sides of the scene in which no figures are visible. At the front of the scene there are two large seated bodhisattvas and three small lotus ponds in which birds and human figures appear. Some of the figures are swimming and bathing in the water. In the central pond, which is the focus of attention of the principle figures, small people sit on lotus blossoms or enclosed inside the flowers.
The two bodhisattvas at the front of the scene can be identified as Avalokitesvara (who has a tiny Buddha in his crown) and Mahasthamaprapta, the principal attendants of the Buddha Amitabha in his Western Paradise. Their gaze and that of the Buddha rest on the lotus pond where the small figures of faithful believers are being reborn from lotus flowers.
Purchased from Lai-yuan and Co. (C.T. Loo, NY) 1921 |
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Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
http://www.asia.si.edu/
Smithonian Institution P.O. Box 37012 MRC 107
Washington D.C. 20013-7012 |
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Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
http://www.asia.si.edu/
Smithonian Institution P.O. Box 37012 MRC 107
Washington D.C. 20013-7012 |
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