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Lot Essay
The Buddhist caves at Yungang, in the sandstone cliffs near Datong in Shanxi province, date to the Northern Wei dynasty, and under the Toba Tartars were built between AD 460 and 494, when the capital moved to Luoyang, with further work being done between AD 500 and 535. For a similar apsara figure in a relief in cave VI, dating to the second half of the 5th century, see Sickman and Soper, The Art and Architecture of China, Harmondsworth, 1956, p. 32, fig. A.
Further details of the Yungang caves are illustrated in Shanxi sheng wenwu gongzuo weiyuanhui, Yungang Shiku, Beijing, 1977, and J.O. Caswell, Written and Unwritten. A New History of the Buddhist Caves at Yungang, Vancouver, 1988.
Further details of the Yungang caves are illustrated in Shanxi sheng wenwu gongzuo weiyuanhui, Yungang Shiku, Beijing, 1977, and J.O. Caswell, Written and Unwritten. A New History of the Buddhist Caves at Yungang, Vancouver, 1988.