Samantabhadra Bodhisattva
CultureChinese
DateYuan dynasty (1279-1368)
MediumClay with polychrome
DimensionsOverall: 18 1/2 × 14 1/2 × 6 inches (46.99 × 36.83 × 15.24 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number35-4/2
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DescriptionFigure in blue and red robe seated sideways on a brown elephant, right hand resting on knee of bent right leg.Exhibition HistoryOrigins: Collecting to Create the Nelson-Atkins, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, August 14, 2021-March 6, 2022.
Guangsheng Monastery, Hongdong, Shanxi province, China, early 14th century [1];
With Yamanaka & Co., Peiping (today Beijing), by 1934 [2];
Purchased from Yamanaka & Co., through Laurence Sickman, by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1935.
NOTES:
[1] For more about the art of the Guangsheng temple complex, see Ling-en Lu, “Pigment Style and Workshop Practice in the Yuan Dynasty Wall Paintings from the Lower Guangsheng Monastery” in Original Intentions: Essays on Production, Reproduction, and Interpretation in the Arts of China, eds. Nick Pearce and Jason Steuber (Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2012), 74-137.
[2] Yamanaka invoice and Sickman purchasing notes, copies in Nelson-Atkins registration file.
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