Cleveland Museum of Art
Seated Sakyamuni Buddha
- Date
- 500s–600s
- Medium
- stone
- Culture
- Korea, Three Kingdoms period (57 BCE–668 CE)
- Department
- Korean Art
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 153665
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
Created during the Unified Silla period, a high point of the spread of Buddhist teachings, this kind of miniature statue was often used as a portable object of devotion by traveling Buddhist monks. This particular Buddhist statue is very similar in style and size to the one in the collection of the National Museum of Korea. See it in the following link: https://www.museum.go.kr/site/main/relic/search/view?relicId=1926 This seated Buddhist deity is Shakyamuni, the founder of Buddhism.
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- Credit line
- John L. Severance Fund
- Provenance
- ?–1987: (Gatodo Gallery Co., Ltd, Tokyo, Japan, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) | 1987–: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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