Head of Kuan-yin Bodhisattva Image
CultureChinese
Date13th century
MediumWood with paint and gilding
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number62-2
On View
On viewGallery Location
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Exhibition HistoryFar Eastern Art Exhibit, US Army Training Center, Fort Leonard Wood, MO, May 11-26, 1968.
With C. T. Loo & Cie, Art Ancien de Chine, Paris, by September 13, 1961;
Purchased from C. T. Loo & Cie by J. T. Tai & Co., Inc., New York, no. YT-4287B, September 13-November 27, 1961-1962 [1];
Purchased from J. T. Tai & Co., Inc. by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1962.
NOTES:
[1] The J. T. Tai & Co. Papers, FSA.A2023.01, National Museum of Asian Art Archives, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., Series 1, Box 4, stock record YT-4287B, copy in Nelson-Atkins curatorial file. C. T. Loo & Cie was managed by Loo’s daughter, Janine, from 1953.
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