Seated Bodhisattva

CultureChinese

Dateca. 750 C.E.

MediumBuff-gray sandstone with traces of coloring

DimensionsOverall: 38 1/2 × 15 1/2 × 9 inches (97.79 × 39.37 × 22.86 cm)

Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust

Object number33-9/1

On View

On view

Gallery Location

Collections

East Asian Art

Terms

DescriptionSeated figure, left leg pendant, right leg bent, with foot touching left leg. Left hand on left knee. Wears Indian dhoti, necklace with pendant jewels, bracelet and long ribbons hanging from a headdress over the shoulders and arms. Head is restored.Exhibition History

Exhibition History

International Exhibition of Chinese Art, Burlington House, London, 1935, no. 2391.

Provenance

Cave Seventeen, Tianlongshan, Shanxi Province, China;

Yamanaka & Co., New York;

Purchased from Yamanaka & Co. by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1933.

Published References

The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Handbook of the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1933), 99 (repro.).

International Exhibition of Chinese Art, London: Burlington House, 1935, no. 2391, ill (repro.).

Art Digest, 8:30 (Dec. 1933), ill (repro.).

Ludwig Bachhofer, Short History of Chinese Art, p. 76, fig. 68 (repro.).

Harry Vanderstappen and Marhylin Rhie, “The Sculpture of T’ien Lung Shan: Reconstruction & Dating” Artibus Asiae, vol. 27, no. 3 (1965), 189-220, fig. 57 (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) (repro.).

Li Yuqun and Li Gong. Tianlongshan shiku (Beijing: Kexue chubanshe, 2003), fig. 69, 149 (repro.).

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