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尺寸：99.6 x 81.2 x 27.7 cm
年代：北魏
质地：石雕
风格：中原
来源：美国弗利尔美术馆
参阅：外部链接
鉴赏：
背屏式造像源于印度，大约在五世纪上半叶开始在中国流行。此造像背屏上部已损毁。

主尊佛高肉髻，上饰漩涡纹，脸形丰满清秀，额广颐丰，眼细微闭，略带笑容，神情和蔼生动，右手施无畏印(手指已损坏)，左手结与愿印。褒衣博带袈裟衣纹以浅浮雕和阴刻线表现层次感。左右两旁胁侍菩萨，均戴高宝冠，面容圆润，佩璎珞，帔巾飘垂，立于莲台上，下方有力士承托。背屏处浅刻坐佛、二弟子、火焰纹、飞天及莲花图样，丰富华美。

整体造像结合线刻与圆雕手法，刀法圆润富质感，表现出佛与菩萨宁静和谐的神态。

Buddhist stele

Previous custodian or owner
Eugene and Agnes E. Meyer ( (1875-1959) and (1887-1970) )

Provenance
From at least 1925 to 1968
Eugene Meyer (1875-1959) and Agnes E. Meyer (1887-1970), Washington, DC, and Mt. Kisco, NY [1]
From 1968
Freer Gallery of Art, given by Agnes E. Meyer, 1968 [2]

Notes:
[1] The stele is documented as a part of the Meyer collection in Osvald Sirén, Chinese Sculpture From the Fifth to the Fourteenth Century (London: Benn, Ltd., 1925), vol. 1, p. 48, vol. 2, pl. 183.
[2] The stele is included in Agnes E. Meyer’s Deed of Gift, listed as no. 38 in the document’s Annex, dated July 24, 1967, copy in object file.

It was accessioned to the Freer Gallery’s collection in 1968.