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Buddhist altarpiece
From the collection of National Museum of Asian Art (Freer/Sackler). Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
This Sui dynasty altarpiece carries an incised inscription on the base with a date of 597. The text does not identify which Buddha in the Buddhist pantheon is represented, but it provides the names of sixteen donors who contributed funds to sponsor the image. Some of the donors seem to have been women active in the Sui court.
National Museum of Asian Art (Freer/Sackler)’s own descriptionSubjects
Credit lineBuddhist altarpiece. 597. National Museum of Asian Art (Freer/Sackler), Gift of Charles Lang Freer. CC0.
