MAKE A MEME View Large Image Chinese - One of Fifteen Reliefs from a Buddhist Monument - A Monkey Making an Offering - Walters 2518.jpg These panels must have originally adorned a Buddhist structure perhaps a pagoda somewhere in northernmost China The Walters owns ...
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Keywords: Chinese - One of Fifteen Reliefs from a Buddhist Monument - A Monkey Making an Offering - Walters 2518.jpg These panels must have originally adorned a Buddhist structure perhaps a pagoda somewhere in northernmost China The Walters owns fifteen panels; there are likely to have been many more at the original site but no others have yet been identified nor has the structure they covered been located The reliefs may have been made in territories ruled by the non-Chinese Liao dynasty century 11 terracotta or tufa carved in low relief with traces of white Average cm 53 4 28 9 accession number 25 18 1117 Yamanaka Co New York Henry Walters Baltimore date and mode of acquisition unknown Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters place of origin China Walters Art Museum license Art of China in the Walters Art Museum Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review Terracotta sculptures in China
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