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Seated Maitreya
- Title Translation: 弥勒坐像
- Period: Northern Wei, Tang, 386–534 C.E., 618–907 C.E.
- Project: Sculptures in Longmen Caves
Head of a Buddha
- Title Translation: 佛头
- Period: Northern Wei, Tang, 386–534 C.E., 618–907 C.E.
- Project: Sculptures in Longmen Caves
Seated bodhisattva
- Title Translation: 菩萨坐像
- Period: Eastern Wei, ca. 530 C.E.
- Project: Sculptures in Longmen Caves
- Work Description: Provenance: 1903, excavated at the White Horse Monastery (Baima Si), Loyang, Henan province, China. 1913, sold by Edgar Worch (dealer; b. 1880 - d. 1972), A. Worch Antiquités de la Chine, Paris to Denman Waldo Ross (b. 1853 - d. 1935), Cambridge, MA; 1913, gift of Denman Waldo Ross to the MFA. (Accession Date: October 2, 1913)
Guardian Lion
- Title Translation: 守护狮
- Period: Tang, 618–907 C.E.
- Project: Sculptures in Longmen Caves
- Work Description: Provenance: Wanfo (Ten Thousand Buddha) Cave, Longmen Caves, Luoyang, China [see note 1]; about 1930, removed from Wanfo Cave by local stonemasons, including Wang Kui and sold, probably by Ma Longtu (antiques dealer), Luoyang, to a Beijing dealer [see note 2]. By 1931, C. T. Loo and Co., New York [see note 3]; 1940, sold by Loo to the MFA. (Accession Date: March 7, 1940) NOTES: [1] Photographed in situ in 1907 or 1908 and published by Edouard Chavannes, Mission Archeologique dans la Chine Septentrionale (Paris, 1909), no. 305, pl. CLXXXII. The companion lion is in the collection of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. [2] According to Gong Dazhong, Longmen Shiku Yishu (The Art of Longmen Caves) (Beijing: Renmin Meishu Chubanshe, 2002), pp. 58-60. [3] Dealer C. T. Loo lent the lion to the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University from December 2, 1931 until September 1935.
Divine Guardian
- Title Translation: 守护神
- Period: Tang, 618–907 C.E.
- Project: Sculptures in Longmen Caves
- Work Description: Provenance: From the Longmen caves, Luoyang, Henan, China. 1936, exchanged with Yamanaka and Co., New York, by the MFA. (Accession Date: February 6, 1936)
Buddhist figure seated in Pensive Pose
- Title Translation: 佛教人物沉思坐姿
- Period: Northern Wei, 386–534 C.E.
- Project: Sculptures in Longmen Caves
- Work Description: Provenance: The caves at Longmen, Luoyang, Henan Province, China. 1936, sold by Yamanaka and Company, New York, to the MFA. (Accession Date: October 8, 1936)