Stele with Buddha, Bodhisattva and monks

STELE WITH BUDDHA, BODHISATTVA AND MONKS.

Origin: China.
Dynasty: Northern and Southern dynasties (420-581).
Date: 6th c.
Technique: White marble finely carved and polished.
Description: In the center a Buddha with a high ushnish sitting in lotus posture in a niche. Above his
head a canopy and large Bodhi trees. He is flanked by Bodhisattva and monks standing on
lotus rooting in stems coming from the beaks of mythological animals sitting beneath. In
the lower register lions flanking a hill censer.
Measurement: Height 63cm, width 42cm, depth 11cm.
Frame/Pedestal: Fixed in a wooden base.
Condition B. Broken and restored.

Provenance:
-Collection Colonel Oberst Paul Kuhlo (1866-1943). Kuhlo studied Sinology in Berlin and served from 1912 as commandant of the East Asian marine detachment in Kiautschou. 1914, after the German capitulation he was imprisoned until 1919. The stele he brought back after his retour to Germany.
-Private collection Germany, acquired from the estate of the descendants.
-Art trade Germany.
Condition Report: This lot will be sold under standard taxation (Condition of Sale _V5.1)
Estimated shipping costs for this lot:
Shipping only by arrangement after the auction.