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(17 1/2 x 10 9/16 x 2 3/4 in.)","dimensionsproposed":"","creditline":"Gift of Carl Otto von Kienbusch, Class of 1906, for the Carl Otto von Kienbusch Jr., Memorial Collection","markings":null,"inscribed":null,"signed":null,"catalograisonne":null,"creditlinerepro":"","restrictions":null,"nowebuse":"False","secondaryobjectnumber":null,"campuscollections":"false","on_view":true,"accessionyear":"1940-01-01","newaccession":0,"titles":[{"title":"Seated buddha","titletype":"Primary Title","displayorder":1}],"makers":[],"depicted":[],"texts":[{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Gallery Label","textentryhtml":"This graceful figure exemplifies how the artists involved in creating Buddhist imagery in China transformed the Indian and Central Asian models that inspired their artistic production. This buddha was  originally attached to a wall in a Buddhist cave-temple, possibly at Longmen, Henan province. Chinese artisans discreetly covered parts of the body that Indian sculptors would have been depicted nude by  adding drapery, arranged here in graceful, schematic folds tumbling into regular zigzags over the pedestal.  The faint smile reflects a contemporary artistic convention for conveying a figure’s heightened spiritual state. The right hand is posed in the <i>abhaya </i>mudra, a ritual gesture urging the worshipper to have no fear. The downward-pointing left hand represents the <i>bhumisparsha </i>mudra, which calls on the Earth to bear witness to the truth of the Buddha’s teachings.\n","remarks":"ASIA_15-TXX-1_CLA  Day 1 Cataloguing"},{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Provenance","textentryhtml":"Longmen Caves, China. [Yamanaka &amp; Co., New York]; purchased by the Princeton University Art Museum, 1940.\n","remarks":null}],"media":[{"id":7092,"uri":"https://media.artmuseum.princeton.edu/iiif/3/collection/Y1940-2_SL","isprimary":1,"rank":1,"mediatypeid":1,"mediaviewtype":"(not assigned)","restrictions":null,"caption":"Luna Digitization Project"}],"hasimage":"true","bibliography":[{"boilertext":"<p><em>The Carl Otto von Kienbusch, Jr. Memorial Collection</em> (Princeton: Princeton University Art Museum, 1956)</p>","citation":"<p><em>The Carl Otto von Kienbusch, Jr. Memorial Collection</em> (Princeton: Princeton University Art Museum, 1956)</p>, no. 73","date":1956,"id":1824,"uri":"https://search.worldcat.org/title/3809022"}],"exhibitions":[{"exhibitionid":1579,"citation":"The Carl Otto von Kienbusch, Jr. Memorial Collection (Princeton University Art Museum, June 1956)","isvirtual":true,"begindate":"1956-06","enddate":"1956-06","uri":"https://artmuseum.princeton.edu/art/exhibitions/1579"}],"geography":[{"displaygeography":"Place made: Asia, China, Lung Men Cave","code":"Place made","continent":"Asia","subcontinent":null,"country":"China","region":null,"state":null,"city":null,"county":null,"subregion":null,"locale":"Lung Men Cave","locus":null,"river":null,"excavation":null,"geoname":"http://www.geonames.org/1801792/luoyang.html","location":{"lat":"","lon":""}}],"terms":[{"id":2096941,"term":"Buddhism","aatid":300073738,"termtype":"Subject"},{"id":2054791,"term":"sculpture","aatid":300047090,"termtype":"Classification"},{"id":2055657,"term":"figures (representations)","aatid":300189808,"termtype":"Subject"},{"id":2033355,"term":"Chinese","aatid":300018322,"termtype":"Culture"},{"id":2033472,"term":"Northern Wei","aatid":300018409,"termtype":"Period / Style"},{"id":2095964,"term":"religious art","aatid":300248179,"termtype":"Subject"},{"id":2163916,"term":"limestone","aatid":300011286,"termtype":"Materials"}],"classifications":[{"id":2054791,"classification":"sculpture"}],"cultures":[{"id":13592,"culture":"Chinese","alphasort":"Chinese","begindate":0,"enddate":0,"displayculture":"Chinese","displaydate":null}],"cultureterms":[{"id":2033355,"culture":"Chinese"}],"periods":[{"id":12533,"period":"Northern Wei dynasty","alphasort":"Wei, Northern","begindate":386,"enddate":535,"displayperiod":"Northern Wei dynasty, 386–535 CE","displaydate":"386–535 CE"}],"periodterms":[{"id":2033472,"period":"Northern Wei"}],"attribute_groups":[{"id":2199319,"term":"Asian Art","termtype":"Collecting Area"}],"dimensionelements":[{"element":"Overall","type":"Height","units":"centimeters","dimension":"44.50"},{"element":"Overall","type":"Width","units":"centimeters","dimension":"26.80"},{"element":"Overall","type":"Depth","units":"centimeters","dimension":"7.00"}],"packages":[{"packageid":278831,"name":"10282025-DAY1-ONVIEW"},{"packageid":214208,"name":"Gallery_13-15(Pavilion4)-Asian"},{"packageid":181967,"name":"web_2020_Asian"}],"primaryimage":["https://media.artmuseum.princeton.edu/iiif/3/collection/Y1940-2_SL"],"displaymaker":null,"displayculture":"Chinese","displayperiod":"Northern Wei dynasty, 386–535 CE","caption":"Chinese, Northern Wei dynasty (386–535 CE), Seated buddha, ca. 510. 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