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Guanyin Bodhisattva

CultureChinese
DateYuan dynasty (1279-1368)
MediumWood with traces of paint
DimensionsOverall: 69 × 19 inches (175.26 × 48.26 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number59-70
On View
On view
Gallery Location
  • 230
Collections
Exhibition History
Chinese Art Under the Mongols, Yale University Art Gallery, 1968-1969; Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY; Cleveland Museum of Art, October 1-November 24, 1968; Asia House Gallery, New York, January 9 – March 2, 1969, no. 4.
Provenance

Robert E. Curtis Ltd (Kyoto, Japan);

Purchased from Robert E. Curtis Ltd by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1959.

Published References

Oswald Sirén, “Studien zur chinesischen Plastik der Post-T'ang-zeit,” (Berlin: Gedruckt für die Gesellschaft für ostasiatische Kunst, 1927), pl. 3 (repro.).

Archives of Chinese Art Society of America, vol. XIV (New York: Chinese Art Society, 1960), 72, fig. 22 (repro.).

Sherman E. Lee, Wai-kam Ho, “Chinese art under the Mongols: the Yüan dynasty, 1279-1368,” cat. exh., (Cleveland: Cleveland Art Museum, October 1 – November 24, 1968), no. 4 (repro.).

John Gruen, Art in New York (February 10, 1969), illus (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), 41 (repro.).

Pratapaditya Pal, Icons of Piety, Images of Whimsy: Asian Terra-cottas from the Walter-Grounds Collection (Los Angeles, California: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1987), 75 (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), 311 (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), 348, pl. 199 (repro.).

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