The Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara

CultureIndonesian

Datelate 8th century C.E.

MediumBronze with traces of gilding

DimensionsOverall: 5 3/4 × 4 inches (14.61 × 10.16 cm)

Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust

Object number57-42

On View

Not on view

Collections

South and Southeast Asian Art

Terms

Exhibition History

Art in Asia and the West, San Francisco Museum of Art, October 28-December 1, 1957, no. 12e.

Provenance

Alexander L. Wach (1913-1985), San Francisco, and Edgar E. Widburg (1919-1994), San Francisco, by 1957;

Purchased from Wach and Widburg by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1957.

Published References

San Francisco Museum of Art, Art in Asia and the West, exh. cat. (San Francisco, California: H. S. Crocker Co., Inc., 1957), 32.

Ross E. Taggart and George L. McKenna, eds., Handbook of the Collections in The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Kansas City, Missouri, vol. 2, Art of the Orient, 5th ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1973), 150, (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), 391, (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), 280, fig. 1, (repro.).

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