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Guanyin Bodhisattva

Artist He Chaozong (Chinese, active ca. 1570 - 1630)
DateMing dynasty (1368-1644)
MediumTe-hua ware (glazed porcelain) Dehua ware (glazed porcelain)
DimensionsOverall: 11 1/4 × 5 1/2 × 5 inches (28.58 × 13.97 × 12.7 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number33-588
On View
On view
Gallery Location
  • 201
Collections
DescriptionSeated Guanyin figure. White glazed porcelain, with traces of gold lacquer.Exhibition History

Ming Porcelain, China Institute in America, New York, October 1970-January 1971.

The Art of China, Geroge Bush Presidential Library and Museum, College Station, TX, August 30-December 31, 2003.

Provenance

Hua Ku Shan Fang, Peiping, by June 30, 1933 [1];

Purchased from Hua Ku Shan Fang, through Laurence Sickman, by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1933.

NOTES:

[1] Peiping is modern-day Beijing. In a memorandum dated August 23, 1933, Nelson-Atkins Archives, RG01-01, box 5, folder 40, Laurence Sickman listed this vendor as Ta Ku Shan Fang.

Published References

Suzanne G. Valenstein, Ming Porcelains: A Retrospective: Catalogue of A Loan Exhibition From Museum and Private Collections in The United States, October 29, 1970 Through January 31, 1971 (New York: China House Gallery, China Institute in America, 1970), 97, no. 69 (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), 89 (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), 299 (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), 363, no. 247 (repro.).

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