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Shrine of Guanyin Bodhisattva

CultureChinese
Date599 C.E.
MediumGilt bronze, covered with corrosion
DimensionsOverall: 8 1/2 × 5 7/8 × 4 3/4 inches (21.59 × 14.92 × 12.07 cm)
Credit LineGift of Laurence Sickman in memory of Mrs. Paul Mallon
Object number79-41
On View
On view
Gallery Location
  • 204
Collections
Provenance

Laurence Sickman (1907-1988), Kansas City, MO, by September 1947-1979 [1]; 

His gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1979.

NOTES:

[1] This object was on loan from Sickman to the Nelson-Atkins from September 1947 until its gift in 1979.

Published References

The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Handbook of the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1933), 306 (repro.).

Matsubara Saburō 松原三郎, Chūgoku Bukkyō chōkoku shiron 中国仏教彫刻史論 (Tōkyō : Yoshikawa Kōbunkan, Heisei 7 1995), Plate Vol. II, 575b (repro.).

Hugo Munsterberg, “Chinese Buddhist Bronzes of the T’ang Period” Artibus Asiae, XI, 1-2 (1948): 27-45; ill. p. 29, fig. 1 (repro.).

Chinese Buddhist Bronzes, exh. cat. (University of Michigan Museum of Art: 1950), no. 51, pl. 14 (repro.).

Archives of Asian Art, vol. XXXIV (N.Y: Asia Society, 1981), 102, fig. 19 (repro.).

Museum (n.p.: Tokyo National Museum, no. 432, March 1987), no. 14, ill, 12 (repro.).

Roger Ward and Patricia J. Fidler, eds., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection (New York: Hudson Hills Press, in association with Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1993), 306 (repro.).

Deborah Emont Scott, ed., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection, 7th ed. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2008)319, fig.110 (repro.).

Amy McNair, “The Ending of the Law and the Hope of Salvation: Some 6th Century Chinese Buddhist Sculptures in The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art” Orientations, Special issue for the Chinese art collection in the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Vol. 39, no. 8 (November/December 2008), 84, Fig.4 (repro.).

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