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| Keywords: Chinese - Architectural Panels with Scenes from a Bodhisattva Legend - Walters 2527, 2528.jpg These panels carved in low relief 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 Liao dynasty They depict Pratyekabuddha one of 500 non-teaching independent Buddhas residing on a mountainside According to a story in the Asokavadana the sight of the 500 Pratyekahbuddhas engendered faith in a monkey who made an offering to them of withered leaves roots and fruits Later the Pratyekabuddhas is shown; he appears to be already dead though the monkey does not realize it century 11 terracotta or tufa with traces of white each panel cm 53 4 28 9 accession number 25 27 25 28 77978 Yamanaka Co New York Henry Walters Baltimore date of acquisition unknown by purchase Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters place of origin China Walters Art Museum license Chinese ceramics in the Walters Art Museum Chinese earthenware Ceramic reliefs 11th-century reliefs Reliefs of monkeys | ||||
