Kneeling Apsara
CultureChinese
Dateca. 470-490 C.E.
MediumGilt bronze
DimensionsOverall: 4 1/4 × 2 3/4 inches (10.8 × 6.99 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number34-48
On View
On viewGallery Location
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Collections
DescriptionKneeling figure resting on right foot and left knee and toe. Right arm rests on knee with hand upright. Left arm next to body, bent, hand down. Plain hair with high ushnisha. Full robe. Part of altar group.Exhibition HistoryUniversity of Pennsylvania, University Museum. November-December 1936.
Chinese bronzes in American collections, Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC, October 13-November 27, 1938.
Buddhist Art, The Detroit Institute of Arts, 1942.
Chinese Buddhist Bronzes, Museum of Art, University of Michigan,1950, no. 16, fig. 7.
Hua Ku Shan Fang (Beijing), 1934;
Purchased from Hua Ku Shan Fang through Laurence Sickman by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1934.
Hugo Munsterberg, Chinese Buddhist Bronzes (Tokyo, 1967), pl. 97 (repro.).
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Giuseppe Cesari, called Il Cavaliere d'Arpino
1608/1609
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