Seated Sakyamuni Buddha

Description

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

Provenance

(Gatodo Gallery Co., Ltd, Tokyo, Japan, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) (1987); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (1987–)

Seated Sakyamuni Buddha

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500s–600s

Accession Number

1987.188

Medium

stone

Dimensions

Overall: 11.4 x 7.6 x 7 cm (4 1/2 x 3 x 2 3/4 in.)

Classification

Sculpture

Museum

The Cleveland Museum of Art

Cleveland, United States

Credit Line

John L. Severance Fund