New York Tribune, 1903
"UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ACQUIRES SOME STRIKING EXAMPLES OF EASTERN ART FOR ITS TEMPLE"
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"UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ACQUIRES SOME STRIKING EXAMPLES OF EASTERN ART FOR ITS TEMPLE"
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"FIGURES FROM FAR EAST"
"Hindoo Fruit Sellers and Japanese Idols in Philadelphia"
"Professor Maxwell Sommerville, who fills the chair of glyptology at the University of Pennsylvania, and has just sailed for distant points in search of curios..."
"Hindoo Fruit Sellers and Japanese Idols in Philadelphia"
"Professor Maxwell Sommerville, who fills the chair of glyptology at the University of Pennsylvania, and has just sailed for distant points in search of curios..."
"for the Buddhist temple at the university museum, left at the gates of the famous Oriental place of worship two figures that arrived from the East just as he was about to start on the trip."
"The figures are two stucco lifesize representations of fruit sellers, and were secured by professor Sommerville when in Hyderabad"
"The figures are the work of native Hindoo artists, who have reproduced their models with fidelity and almost microscopic accuracy."
"The two fruit sellers, Professor Sommerville declares, embody and illustrate the hopeless poverty, ever present famine, race degradation and servile subjection of the Hindoo race, who follow after idols and are strangers to Buddha."
" In describing them Professor Sommerville said: 'They are race types of the perverse people from whom Gautama, the son of Subhodana, who afterward became Buddha, turned away in his quest for loftier religious ideals.'"
"'Born a Brahmin, Gautama in his early life was constantly brought in contact with creatures like these semi-mendicant fruit sellers.'"
"'Therefore, I thought it would be well to complete my collection of Buddhist symbols and antiquities by installing the figures at the entrance to the temple'"
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