The Missing Buddhas: The mystery of the Chinese Buddhist statues that stunned the Western art world

by Tony Miller

In the early 1900s, as chaos reigned in China, a group of life-size glazed terracotta Buddhist monks started appearing on the antiques market and caused a sensation in the West, being both exquisite and completely unlike anything else ever seen in Chinese art. Museums and collectors around the world competed for them, but who made them and when? And where had they been hidden before they suddenly emerged into the light? The Missing "Buddhas" tells...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9888769189
• ISBN13: 9789888769186
• Release Date: January 2022
• Publisher: Earnshaw Books Ltd
• Length: 310 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"