Temple Offering

Unidentified Tang Dynasty maker, Chinese, 618 - 906

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665, Tang Dynasty, 618-907

Limestone

Overall: 13 × 7 11/16 × 2 7/8 in. (33 × 19.5 × 7.3 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Vladimir Gregorievitch Simkhovitch

47.10.10772

Geography

Place Made: Xi'an, China, East Asia, Asia

Period

500-1000

Object Name

Ceremonial Artifact

Research Area

Asia

Not on view

Inscriptions

Ching (Donor) given in memory of partents for the glory of Buddha and salvation of the world. Second year of Lun Teh (reign) 665 AD. (This date apparently added later.) Lower panel appears to have been ground off. Upper sculpture is old, possible Sung (or Sui).

Exhibition History

Gene Y. Kim, Class of 1985, Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, April 22, 1994-June 22, 1997.

Gene Y. Kim, Class of 1985, Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 16, 1997-January 21, 2008.

The Gene Y. Kim, Class of 1985, Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 2008-September 28, 2014.

Provenance

Vladimir Gregorievitch Simkhovitch (1874-1959), New York, New York; given to present collection, 1947.

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