Budai (Buddhist Deity)

China

Qing dynasty (1644-1912), About 1750

  • Titles Budai (Buddhist Deity) (Descriptive)
  • Artist China
  • Medium porcelain, Dehua ware
  • Dimensions 5 1/8 × 6 × 5 in. (13 × 15.2 × 12.7 cm)
  • Credit Line Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Gift of Louise Sewell Taylor and William Hill Sewell in memory of their parents, Dr. and Mrs. Joseph W. Sewell, Jr., AFI.88.2016
  • Work Type sculpture
  • Classification Sculpture

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