Several dated stylistically related examples exist: one dated AD 718 was included in the exhibition, Selections of Chinese Art, China Institue in America, 1967, Catalogue, no. 3, another dated AD 711 with beaded columns around the cylindrical base was included in the exhibition, Ancient Chinese Sculpture, Eskenazi, 1978, Catalogue, no. 25; two others dated AD736 and 746 are illustrated by Yang Boda, Quyang Xiude si chutu jinian zaoxiang de yishu fengge yu tezheng, Gugong Bowuyuan Yuankan, vol. 2, 1960, nos. 56 and 57; another dated AD 680 is illustrated in the exhibition Catalogue, Ancient Chinese Sculpture from the Alsdorf Collection and Others, Eskenazi, 1990, no. 12; cf. ibid, no. 13 for a marble pedestal dated AD 710 where the lotus base is surrounded by a band of simulated bamboo.

This style was also wide spread in Tang gilt bronzes-cf. the exhibition Catalogue, Early Chinese Art from Tombs and Temples, Eskenazi, 1993, no. 25 where the usually visible foot is swathed under drapery.

Based on these comparable examples, the present lot was very likely made sometime between the late 7th to the middle of the 8th Century.