Gardner, Helen: Art through the ages: an introduction to its history and significance (London: G. Bell and Sons, Ltd., 1927)

Plate 167


(A} Votive Tablet. Detail of the upper part. 534 a.d. Metropolitan Museum,
New York. (Metropolitan Museum)


(i?) Kuan Yin. Sung dynasty. Buckingham
Coll., Art Institute, Chicago. (Art Insti-
tute) *
(C) Buddhist Votive Stele. Erected in 554
a.d., “as a means of securing the happiness
and welfare of the donors, their ancestors,
their posterity, their relations, and friends,
the Emperor in particular and the Chinese
people in general.” Boston Museum.
(Boston Museum)