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Gilt bronze altarpiece

Gilt bronze altarpiece

ca. 8th century

Bronze with gilt
8 1/2 in. (21.59 cm)
Overall h.: 13 3/4 in.
Overall w.: 9 1/2 in.
Eugene Fuller Memorial Collection
48.178
location
Not currently on view

Resources

Exhibition HistoryLos Angeles County Museum of Art, Arts of the T'ang Dynasty, 1957 (only the Trinity)
Published ReferencesLee, Sherman. "Five Early Gilt Bronzes," in Artibus Asiae, XII, 1/2, (1949), p. 20-22, fig. 11, p. 21

"Handbook, Seattle Art Museum: Selected Works from the Permanent Collections." Seattle, WA: Seattle Art Museum, 1951, p. 59 (b&w)

Los Angeles County Museum, Cat, "Arts of the T'ang Dynasty," (1957), p. 56 (94)

Munsterberg, Hugo. "Chinese Buddhist Bronzes," 1967, pl. 119, p. 128

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