EARLY TANG DYNASTY, 7TH CENTURY

A similar depiction of the Seven Buddhas of the Past raised above an hexagonal plinth is illustrated by d'Argencé, Chinese, Korean and Japanese Sculpture in the Avery Brundage Collection, Japan, 1974, no. 82, where it is mentioned that a somewhat similar group, with a three-four arrangement, was discovered inside the base of the tenth century pagoda at Jinhua, Zhejiang province.