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Amitabha Buddha of the Forty-eight Vows
Amitabha Buddha of the Forty-eight Vows

Amitabha Buddha of the Forty-eight Vows

CultureChinese
Datelate 10th-early 11th century
MediumGilt bronze
DimensionsOverall: 10 1/4 × 5 inches (26.04 × 12.7 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number46-84
On View
On view
Gallery Location
  • 204
Collections
Exhibition History

Chinese Buddhist Bronzes, University of Michigan, Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, Mich.. 1950, no. 100.

Art in Asia and the West, San Francisco Museum of Art. October-December 1957, no. 16k.

Chinese Art under the Mongols, Yale University Art Gallery. 1968-1969. Traveled to Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY; Cleveland Museum of Art, October 1-November 24, 1968; Asia House Gallery, New York.

Provenance

Dr. Otto Burchard;

Purchased from Dr. Otto Burchard  by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1946.

Published References

Hugo Munsterberg, Artibus Asiae, XI, 1-2 (1948), 42, fig. 12 (repro.).

Chinese Buddhist Bronzes, University of Michigan, Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, Mich.. 1950, no 100 (repro.).

Laurence Sickman and Alexandra Soper. The Art and Architecture of China.  The Pelican History of Art.  (Harmodsmorth, 1956), pl. 76B;  paperback ed., 1971, p. 112 (repro.).

Art in Asia and the West, San Francisco Museum of Art. October-December 1957, p. 21, no. 16k (repro.).

Enciclopedia Universale dell’Arte (Rome: Cina Storica, 1960), pl. 309 (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), 43 (repro.).

Laurence Sickman, “Monsters and Elegance: Nine Centuries of Chinese Sculpture” Apollo, special issue for the Asian art collection in the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Vol. XCVII, no. 133 (March 1973), 32-39; p. 38, no. 10 (repro.).

Angela F. Howard, “Buddhist Sculptures of the Liao Dynasty” Bulletin of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, no. 56 (1984), 1-95, pl. 34, text p. 13 (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), 309 (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), 337, fig. 167 (repro.).

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