Harvard Art Museums > 2014.166: Buddha at Birth (Tanjō Butsu) Sculpture Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"Buddha at Birth (Tanjō Butsu) , 2014.166,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Apr 18, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/70150. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number 2014.166 Title Buddha at Birth (Tanjō Butsu) Other Titles Alternate Title: Tanjō Butsu Classification Sculpture Work Type sculpture, figurine Date 7th century Places Creation Place: East Asia, Japan Period Asuka period, 552-645 Culture Japanese Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/70150 Physical Descriptions Medium Bronze Dimensions figure only: H. 13.4 x W. 5 x D. 2.3 cm (5 1/4 x 1 15/16 x 7/8 in.) with attached tang: H. 17.5 cm (6 7/8 in.) Provenance Recorded Ownership History [Fugendo, Tokyo, (by 1972)], sold; to Sylvan Barnet and William Burto, Cambridge, MA, (1972-2014), gift from Sylvan Barnet and bequest from William Burto; to the Harvard Art Museums, 2014. Acquisition and Rights Credit Line Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Sylvan Barnet and William Burto Accession Year 2014 Object Number 2014.166 Division Asian and Mediterranean Art Contact am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu Permissions The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. Publication History Kuno Takeshi, "Tanjôbutsu ni tsuite", Kobijutsu, Sanshaisha (Tokyo, Japan, September, 1965), no. 10, p. 32 Miyeko Murase and Masako Watanabe, The Written Image: Japanese Calligraphy and Painting from the Sylvan Barnet and William Burto Collection, exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, NY, 2002), pp. 69-71, cat. 15 Exhibition History Assemblages: Fragments in Classical Japanese Art, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, 02/26/2019 - 05/20/2019 Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of Asian and Mediterranean Art at am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
