{"data": {"id": 155903, "accession_number": "1991.2", "share_license_status": "CC0", "tombstone": "Thangka with the Seventh Bodhisattva, 1368\u20131424. China, Ming dynasty (1368\u20131644). Silk and gold thread on silk satin ground, embroidery; overall: 43.8 x 19.5 cm (17 1/4 x 7 11/16 in.); mounted: 56.8 x 31.8 cm (22 3/8 x 12 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1991.2", "current_location": null, "title": "Thangka with the Seventh Bodhisattva", "creation_date": "1368\u20131424", "creation_date_earliest": 1368, "creation_date_latest": 1424, "artists_tags": [], "culture": ["China, Ming dynasty (1368\u20131644)"], "technique": "Silk and gold thread on silk satin ground, embroidery", "support_materials": [], "department": "Textiles", "collection": "Textiles", "type": "Embroidery", "measurements": "Overall: 43.8 x 19.5 cm (17 1/4 x 7 11/16 in.); Mounted: 56.8 x 31.8 cm (22 3/8 x 12 1/2 in.)", "dimensions": {"overall": {"height": 0.438, "height_inch": 17, "height_inch_fraction": 0.25, "width": 0.195, "width_inch": 7, "width_inch_fraction": 0.6875}, "mounted": {"height": 0.568, "height_inch": 22, "height_inch_fraction": 0.375, "width": 0.318, "width_inch": 12, "width_inch_fraction": 0.5}}, "state_of_the_work": null, "edition_of_the_work": null, "copyright": null, "inscriptions": [{"inscription": "Penned on the reverse is a Tibetan inscription that translates as \"the Seventh Bodhisattva.\"", "inscription_translation": null, "inscription_remark": null, "sortorder": null}], "exhibitions": {"current": [{"id": 311620, "title": "Asian Autumn: New Objects/New Insights: Cleveland's Recent Chinese Acquisitions", "description": "<i>Asian Autumn: New Objects/New Insights: Cleveland's Recent Chinese Acquisitions</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 18-December 31, 1994).", "opening_date": "1994-10-18T04:00:00"}, {"id": 211548, "title": "When Silk Was Gold: Central Asian & Chinese Textiles from the Cleveland and Metropolitan Museums of Art", "description": "<i>When Silk Was Gold: Central Asian & Chinese Textiles from the Cleveland and Metropolitan Museums of Art</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (October 26, 1997-January 4, 1998); The Metropolitan Museum of Art (organizer) (March 2-May 17, 1998).", "opening_date": "1997-10-19T00:00:00"}, {"id": 292529, "title": "Himalayan Gallery 237 Rotation \u2013 November 2016-April 2017", "description": "<i>Himalayan Gallery 237 Rotation \u2013 November 2016-April 2017</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (November 7, 2016-April 10, 2017).", "opening_date": "2016-11-07T05:00:00"}], "legacy": [{"description": "<em>Selected 1991 Acquisitions</em>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (January 28-April 26, 1992).", "opening_date": "1992-01-28T00:00:00"}]}, "provenance": [{"description": "(Spink & Son, Ltd., London, England, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "?\u20131991", "sortorder": 1}, {"description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "1991\u2013", "sortorder": 2}], "find_spot": null, "related_works": [], "former_accession_numbers": [], "did_you_know": "The bodhisattva is flanked by two columns, each topped with a <em>makara</em>, a fanciful water creature whose tail becomes lotus scrolls forming an arch over the bodhisattva.", "early_education_description": null, "artlens_description": null, "description": "In remarkably pristine condition, this embroidery is from a dispersed set that included images of protectors and bodhisattvas. The embroidery technique and pictorial style are Chinese, but the subject matter and the type of devotional hanging called a thangka are associated with Tibetan Buddhism. Historical records state that during the early Ming dynasty (1368\u20131644), gifts of Buddhist art were sent from China to Tibet, since relationships between Chinese rulers and Tibetan monastic patriarchs were strong and amicable during this time. A Tibetan inscription on the back notes that this figure is the \u201cseventh bodhisattva,\u201d indicating the position in which it would have hung in a temple hall. Odd-numbered works were hung on one side of the main image, and even-numbered works on the other, counting from the center.", "external_resources": {"wikidata": ["https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q79944516"], "internet_archive": ["https://archive.org/details/clevelandart-1991.2-thangka-with-the-sev"]}, "citations": [{"citation": "Turner, Evan H. \"Selected 1991 Acquisitions.\" <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 79, no. 2 (1992): 63-83.", "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 67; Mentioned: p. 83", "url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25161350"}, {"citation": "Wilson, J. Keith, and Anne E. Wardwell. \"New Objects/New Insights: Cleveland's Recent Chinese Acquisitions.\" <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art </em>81, no. 8 (1994): 270-347.", "page_number": "Reproduced: 343; Mentioned: p. 342-345, 347", "url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25161465"}, {"citation": "Watt, James C. Y., Anne E. Wardwell, and Morris Rossabi. <em>When silk was gold: Central Asian and Chinese textiles</em>. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art in cooperation with the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1997.", "page_number": "Mentioned: cat. no. 63, pp. 207\u2013209; Reproduced: p. 208", "url": null}, {"citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Cleveland Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine</em>. Vol. 37 no. 09, November 1997", "page_number": "Mentioned & reproduced: p. 2", "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAMM1997-09/page/2"}, {"citation": "Cunningham, Michael R., Stanislaw J. Czuma, Anne E. Wardwell, and J. Keith Wilson. <em>Masterworks of Asian Art</em>. 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