id: 98823 accession number: 1918.501 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1918.501 updated: 2022-06-11 09:00:23.022000 Amitabha Triad, 1400s. Korea, Joseon dynasty (1392-1910). Bronze with traces of gilding; overall: 40.6 x 16.5 x 54.6 cm (16 x 6 1/2 x 21 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Worcester R. Warner Collection 1918.501 title: Amitabha Triad title in original language: 금동아미타여래삼존좌상 (金銅阿彌陀如來三尊坐像) series: series in original language: creation date: 1400s creation date earliest: 1400 creation date latest: 1499 current location: 236 Korean creditline: Worcester R. Warner Collection copyright: --- culture: Korea, Joseon dynasty (1392-1910) technique: bronze with traces of gilding department: Korean Art collection: Korean Art type: Sculpture find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 40.6 x 16.5 x 54.6 cm (16 x 6 1/2 x 21 1/2 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Korean Art in Early Chosön, 1400-1600 opening date: 2009-03-17T00:00:00 Korean Art in Early Chosön, 1400-1600. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (organizer) (March 17-June 21, 2009). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Buddhist Art. Detroit Institute of Arts, Twenty-Fourth Loan Exhibition, October, 1942. Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI (October 1942). --- PROVENANCE Worcester R. Warner [1846-1929], Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: 1916-1918 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1918- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: This bronze statue that shows three powerful Buddhist deities was acquired in Korea in 1916 by Langdon Warner (1881–1955), the famous art historian at that time. digital description: wall description: This rare bronze triad from the 1400s shows Amitabha (아미타불 in Korean), or the Buddha of the Western Paradise, seated on a lotus pedestal at the center. He is flanked by two sacred attendants, Ksitigarbha (지장보살 in Korean) on his left and Avalokitesvara (관음보살 in Korean) on his right. The combination of these three Buddhist deities was particularly popular in the early Joseon period. The small scale suggests that this triad might have been displayed in a personal shrine rather than a large worship hall. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Warner, Langdon. "Bronze Korean Trinity." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 7, no. 6 (1920): 79-80. page number: Reproduced: Front Matter; Mentioned: p. 79-80 url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25136383 Lee, Sherman E. Buddhist Art. Detroit Institute of Arts, Twenty-Fourth Loan Exhibition, October, 1942. Detroit: Detroit Institute of Arts, 1942. page number: Mentioned: cat. no. 89, p. 35; Reproduced: cat. no. 89, p. 61 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 892 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n158 Kim, Hongnam. The Story of a Painting: A Korean Buddhist Treasure from the Mary and Jackson Burke Foundation. New York: Asia Society Galleries, 1991. page number: Mentioned: p. 47, cat. no. 4; Reproduced: p. 4, fig. 8 url: Cunningham, Michael R., Stanislaw J. Czuma, Anne E. Wardwell, and J. Keith Wilson. Masterworks of Asian Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1998. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 239 url: May, Sally Ruth, Jane Takac, and Barbara J. Bradley. Knockouts: A Pocket Guide. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2001. page number: Mentioned: no. 94, pp. 85-86, p. 119; Reproduced: p. 86; url: Choe, Song-eun. “About Amitabha Buddha Images of the Late Unified Silla and Early Goryeo Periods [나말여초 아미타불상의 도상적 고찰].” Kangjwa misulsa (2006): 213-234. page number: url: http://www.dbpia.co.kr/author/authorDetail?ancId=2589316 Lee, So-young, Ja-hyun Kim Haboush, Sun-pyo Hong, and Chin-Sung Chang. Art of the Korean Renaissance, 1400-1600. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2009. page number: Reproduced: p. 34. cat. no. 13, Mentioned: p. 101 url: Yim, Nam-su and Jeong Eun-woo. “Changes in Fashioning Small Gilt Bronze Buddhist Statues and their Techniques from the Late Goryeo to Early Joseon Periods [여말선초 소금동불의 유행과 제작기법의 변화]. Misul sahak (2010): 259-290. page number: url: http://www.dbpia.co.kr/journal/articleDetail?nodeId=NODE01524104 Glassman, Hank. The Face of Jizō: Image and Cult in Medieval Japanese Buddhism. Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2012. page number: Reproduced: p. 77, fig 2.11 url: Franklin, David and C. Griffith Mann. Treasures from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2012. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 130-131 url: Treasures from Korea: Arts and Culture of the Joseon Dynasty, 1392-1910. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2014. page number: url: Cleveland Museum of Art. The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 252 url: Cleveland Museum of Art. Museum Masters: 2016-17 Companion Guide. [Cleveland, Ohio]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2016. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: P. 31 url: Song, Un-sok. "Korea's Joseon-Dynasty Buddhist Sculptures in American Museums" In Arts of Korea: Histories, Challenges, and Perspectives, edited by Jason Steuber, and Allysa B. Peyton, 218-243. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2018. page number: Reproduced: p. 222, fig. 10.2 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1918.501/1918.501_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1918.501/1918.501_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1918.501/1918.501_full.tif