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The New-born Buddha

Date: 400s CE
Medium: gilt bronze with inlays of blue glass and turquoise
Culture: China, Northern Wei dynasty (386-534)
Department: Chinese Art
Institution: Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID: 133035

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This image of the newborn Buddha is rare and unusual. The common type represents him taking seven steps while proclaiming "I am supreme in the Universe." Here, he is represented as being bathed by the nine Nagas, with both hands down. The tang on the back of the Buddha's head shows that it originally had a halo.

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Credit line: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
Provenance: ?–1955: (Walter Hochstadter [1914–2007], New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) | 1955–: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

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