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尺寸：H. 48 in. (121.9 cm); W. 29 3/4 in. (75.6 cm); D. 6 3/4 in. (17.1 cm)
年代：3世纪(Ikshvaku)
质地：石灰石
风格：印度南部
来源：纽约大都会博物馆
参阅：外部链接
鉴赏：
Drum panel depicting a stupa with the Buddha’s descent from Trayastrimsa Heaven
India, Nagarjunakonda Stupa Site 6, Guntur district, Andhra Pradesh
late 3rd century CE
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 235
This panel depicts a grandly decorated stupa with the Buddha at its entrance, his hand raised to grant protection. The scene represents his descent, at the conclusion of the rainy season, from Trayastrimsa Heaven—the heaven of the Thirty-Three Gods presided over by Indra. The Buddha descended a golden ladder to the jubilation of devotees, seen here kneeling. This panel, likely once brilliantly polychromed, belongs to a small group of narrative reliefs that provide the greatest source of visual evidence of the appearance of these structures in the third and fourth centuries.

来源:
[C. T. Loo & Co. , New York and Paris, from August 1926 until 1928; sold to MMA]

展览:
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. “The Pala-Sena Period,” 2007.

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. “Tree & Serpent: Early Buddhist Art in India, 200 BCE–400 CE,” July 17–November 13, 2023.

National Museum of Korea. “Tree & Serpent: Early Buddhist Art in India, 200 BCE–400 CE,” December 22, 2023–April 14, 2024.

著录:
Dimand, M. S. “Two Indian Reliefs of the Amaravati School.” The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 23, no. 10 (October 1928). pp. 240–41, figs. 2–4.

“Chief Museum Accessions.” Eastern Art 1, no.3 (1928). pp. 190–91, pl. 29, fig. 1.

Coomaraswamy, Ananda K. “Buddhists Reliefs from Nagajunakonda and Amaravati.” Rūpam, no. 38–39 (April–July 1929). pp. 71–72.

Bloch, Stella. “Buddhist Fragments from Amaravati.” International Studio 96, no. 397 (June 1930). pp. 44–45.

Priest, Alan. “Indian Sculpture.” The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 34, no. 6 (June 1939) pp. 152–58, fig. 1.

Rowland, Benjamin. The Art and Architecture of India: Buddhist, Hindu, Jain. Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1953, fig. 71b.

Lippe, Aschwin. “The Sculpture of Greater India.” The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, n.s., 18, no. 6 (February 1960). p. 183.

Munsterberg, Hugo. Art of India and Southeast Asia. New York: Harry N. Abrams, [1970], p. 54.

Kossak, Steven M. “The Arts of South and Southeast Asia.” The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, n.s. 51, no. 4 (spring 1994) p. 25, fig. 13.

Elizabeth Rosen Stone. The Buddhist Art of Nagarjunakonda. vol. 25, Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass Publishers, 1994, fig. 115.