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A LARGE AND RARE DATED WHITE MARBLE STELE FRAGMENT EASTERN WEI DYNASTY, DATED TO THE THIRD YEAR OF THE WU DING PERIOD, CORRESPONDING TO 545

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the solid rectangular base with an eighteen-line calligraphic inscription and dated 'Wu Ding third year' to the back, the front carved with a kneeling European figure supporting a censer, flanked by two ferocious seated lions and the bases of two acolytes, all supporting a figure of Maitreya seated in 'Royal ease', flanked by the bases of two pairs of acolytes, the crystalline stone of white tone
37 by 34 cm, 14 1/2 by 13 3/8 in.


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the solid rectangular base with an eighteen-line calligraphic inscription and dated 'Wu Ding third year' to the back, the front carved with a kneeling European figure supporting a censer, flanked by two ferocious seated lions and the bases of two acolytes, all supporting a figure of Maitreya seated in 'Royal ease', flanked by the bases of two pairs of acolytes, the crystalline stone of white tone
37 by 34 cm, 14 1/2 by 13 3/8 in.

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