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Standing Guanyin Bodhisattva

CultureChinese
DateNorthern Zhou dynasty (557-581 C.E.)
MediumYellowish conglomerate stone
DimensionsOverall: 20 × 6 × 3 1/2 inches (50.8 × 15.24 × 8.89 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number59-39
On View
On view
Gallery Location
  • 204
Collections
Exhibition History

Gods of Asia, Asia House Gallery, New York, May 1-July 1, 1962.

Exhibition, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE. February 23-March 29, 1964, no. 72.

Oriental art exhibition, Washington University, St. Louis, January 23-March 4, 1966.

Provenance

Probably Xian, Shaanxi Province, China

Nagatani, Inc. (Chicago);

Purchased from Nagatani, Inc. by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1959.

Published References

Exhibition, Joslyn Art Museum.  Omaha, Feb. 25-Mar. 29, 1964.  Cat. No. 72 (repro.).

Ross E. Taggart, George L. McKenna, and Marc F. Wilson, eds., Handbook of the Collections in The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Kansas City, Missouri, vol. II, Art of the Orient. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1973), 35 (repro.).

Laurence Sickman, “Monsters and Elegance: Nine Centuries of Chinese Sculpture” Apollo, special issue for the Asian art collection in the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Vol. XCVII, no. 133 (March 1973), 36, fig. 7 (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.).

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, 576 (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), 316, fig. 104 (repro.).

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Standing Figure of a Monk
late 7th-early 8th century C.E.
40-35
overall
Sui dynasty (581-618 C.E.)
F88-37/27
recto overall
ca. 951-953 C.E.
50-64 B
Guanyin Bodhisattva
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Ming dynasty (1368-1644)
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Guanyin Bodhisattva
Sui dynasty (581-618 C.E.)
32-186/9
Seated Guanyin Bodhisattva
Sui dynasty (581-618 C.E.)
F88-37/40
Guanyin Bodhisattva
ca. 590-600 C.E.
35-308