Guanyin Bodhisattva

CultureChinese

DateSui dynasty (581-618 C.E.)

MediumGilt bronze with turquoise inlay, covered with green corrosion

DimensionsOverall: 12 × 3 × 2 inches (30.48 × 7.62 × 5.08 cm)

Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust

Object number32-186/9

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On view

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East Asian Art

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DescriptionStanding figure of Kuan-yin, holding a bottle in left hand and the remains of a willow branch in the upraised right hand. Wears longs scarves and necklaces crossed at the waist and inlaid with turquoise, and an elaborate headdress.Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Exhibition of Chinese bronzes in American collections, Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC. October 13-November 27, 1938, no. 281.

University of Michigan. 1950, no. 49.

Chinese Buddhist Bronzes, Chinese Art Society of America (exhibited at China House, New York City). May 6-June 5, 1959, no. 19.

Provenance

With C. T. Loo & Co., New York, stock no. 14131, by November 1932;

Purchased from C. T. Loo & Co. by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1932.

Published References

Exhibition of Chinese bronzes in American collections, Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC. October 13-November 27, 1938, no. 281 (repro.).

Hugo Munsterberg, Artibus Asiae, XI, 1-2, (1948): 31, fig. 2 (repro.).

University of Michigan. 1950, no. 49 (repro.).

Chinese Buddhist Bronzes, Chinese Art Society of America (exhibited at China House, New York City). May 6-June 5, 1959, no. 19 (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), p. 36 (repro.).

Marilyn M. Rhie, “Late Sui Buddhist Sculpture: A Chronology and Regional Analysis” Archives of Asian Art, XXXV (New York: Asia Society, 1982), pp. 27-54; fig. 36, p. 49 (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), p. 307 (repro.).

Matsubara Saburō 松原三郎, Chūgoku Bukkyō chōkoku shiron 中国仏教彫刻史論 (Tōkyō : Yoshikawa Kōbunkan, Heisei 7 1995), Plate Vol. II, 589abc (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), fig. 108, p. 318 (repro.).

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