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Guanyin Bodhisattva

CultureChinese
Dateca. 1298
MediumYing-ch'ing ware (glazed porcelain)
DimensionsOverall: 20 1/4 × 12 × 7 3/4 inches (51.44 × 30.48 × 19.69 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number35-5
On View
On view
Gallery Location
  • 229
Collections
DescriptionSeated figure in flowing drapery, adorned with jewelry, floral headdress crowned with ushnisha; right elbow resting on raised right knee, left arm straight, palm down. Right hand missing, restoration removed, right ear broken off at lower lip, left ear restored.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. 26.

Provenance

Purchased through Laurence Sickman by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1935.

Published References

Laurence Sickman, “A Ch’ing-pai Porcelain Figure Bearing a Date,” Archives of The Chinese Art Society of America, vol. xv (1961), 34 (repro.).

Sherman E. Lee, Wai-kam Ho, Chinese Art Under the Mongols: Yuan Dynasty, exh. cat., (Cleveland Musuem, October 1-November 24, 1968), no. 26 (repro.).

John Ayers, “Buddhist Porcelain Figures of the Yuan Dynasty,” in Victoria & Albert Museum Yearbook (London: 1969) (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), 87 (repro.).

Sherman E. Lee, “The Changing Taste for Chinese Cermaics” Apollo, special issue for the Asian art collection in the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Vol. XCVII, no. 133 (March 1973), 252, pl. 8 (repro.).

Margaret Medley, Yuan Porcelain and Stoneware (London: Faber, 1974), fig. 12 (repro.).

Margaret Medley, The Chinese Potter, A Practical History of Chinese Ceramics (Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1976), ref., p. 174 (repro.).

Tsugio Mikami, et al., Sekai Toji Zenshu, vol. 12 (Tokyo: Shogakukan, 1981), 202, fig. 107 (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), 298 (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. 200 (repro.).
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