Female figure with child, Niche 122, Beishan Rock Carvings (北山石刻)

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Female figure with child, Niche 122, Beishan Rock Carvings (北山石刻) Anderl, Christoph

Description

This niche is located in Beishan Rock Carvings (北山石刻), Fowan (佛灣), Dazu (大足) District, Chongqing. The central wall depicts a female figure holding a child. The figure sits on a chair with a back and wears a crown decorated with a feng 鳯 (phoenix) motif. She holds a child in her left hand, while her right hand touches her right knee. The child, whose head is lost, carries a round object with both hands. A standing female attendant and a sitting wetnurse are depicted on the left side wall. The wetnurse is breastfeeding a child. The right side wall contains a standing female attendant and two children. A pair of couplets are carved on either side of the outer frame. The couplets, signed by Yang Zixiao 楊子孝, date to the Republican period (1911-1949). The Chinese characters of the couplets are “祥麟不作無緣嗣 (left), 威鳳偏臨積善家 (right)”. Source: Dazu shike yanjiuyuan 大足石刻研究院. Dazu shike quanji 大足石刻全集 [Dazu Rock Carvings] Edited by Li Fangyin 黎方銀. 10 vols. Vol. 2-1, Chongqing: Chongqing chubanshe, 2018, p. 128. Descriptions of the photos: Overview of niche [1, 2] Close-up of right side wall [3] Close-up of left side wall [4] Metadata created by: Sau Ling Wendy Yu.

Item Metadata

Title	Female figure with child, Niche 122, Beishan Rock Carvings (北山石刻)
Creator	Anderl, Christoph
Contributor	From the Ground Up: Buddhism & East Asian Religions (FROGBEAR Project)
Date Issued	2016-11-02
Description	This niche is located in Beishan Rock Carvings (北山石刻), Fowan (佛灣), Dazu (大足) District, Chongqing. The central wall depicts a female figure holding a child. The figure sits on a chair with a back and wears a crown decorated with a feng 鳯 (phoenix) motif. She holds a child in her left hand, while her right hand touches her right knee. The child, whose head is lost, carries a round object with both hands. A standing female attendant and a sitting wetnurse are depicted on the left side wall. The wetnurse is breastfeeding a child. The right side wall contains a standing female attendant and two children. A pair of couplets are carved on either side of the outer frame. The couplets, signed by Yang Zixiao 楊子孝, date to the Republican period (1911-1949). The Chinese characters of the couplets are “祥麟不作無緣嗣 (left), 威鳳偏臨積善家 (right)”. Source: Dazu shike yanjiuyuan 大足石刻研究院. Dazu shike quanji 大足石刻全集 [Dazu Rock Carvings] Edited by Li Fangyin 黎方銀. 10 vols. Vol. 2-1, Chongqing: Chongqing chubanshe, 2018, p. 128. Descriptions of the photos: Overview of niche [1, 2] Close-up of right side wall [3] Close-up of left side wall [4] Metadata created by: Sau Ling Wendy Yu.
Subject	Beishan; Buddhist art; Rock carving; nanny; attendant; child; couplet; breastfeeding
Geographic Location	Chongqing (China)); Dazu Qu (Chongqing, China); 29.71282; 105.71016
Type	Still Image
Language	chi
Notes	Author Affiliations: Ghent University
Series	Cluster 3.4: Typologies of Text-Image Relations
Date Available	2023-06-13
Provider	Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
Rights	Attribution 4.0 International
DOI	10.14288/1.0433149
URI	http://hdl.handle.net/2429/84870
Affiliation	Non UBC
Peer Review Status	Unreviewed
Scholarly Level	Faculty
Rights URI	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Aggregated Source Repository	DSpace

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