id:			121206
accession number:	1942.1082
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1942.1082
updated:		2023-12-05 11:03:05.403000

Amitabha, mid-1000s. China, Yunnan province, Dali kingdom (938–1253). Gilt bronze; overall: 23 cm (9 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1942.1082

title:				Amitabha
title in original language:	阿彌陀佛
series:				
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creation date:			mid-1000s
creation date earliest:		1040
creation date latest:		1060
current location:		241C Chinese Buddhist Sculptures
creditline:			Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
copyright:			

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culture:	China, Yunnan province, Dali kingdom (938–1253)
technique:	gilt bronze
department:	Chinese Art
collection:	China - Liao Dynasty
type:		Sculpture
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measurements: Overall: 23 cm (9 1/16 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* <em>The Arts of the T'ang Dynasty</em>. Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, CA (January 8–February 17, 1957).

* <em>Chinese Art Under the Mongols: The Yüan Dynasty, 1279-1368</em>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (October 1-November 24, 1968).

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PROVENANCE

	(Heeramaneck Galleries, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
	date: ?–1942
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1942–
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	"The Cleveland Museum of Art Annual Report Issue for the Year 1942." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 30, no. 4 (1943): 35-54.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 38
	url:		http://www.jstor.org/stable/25141051

	<em>The Arts of the T'ang Dynasty; A Loan Exhibition Organized by the Los Angeles County Museum from Collections in America, the Orient, and Europe, January 8-February 17, 1957</em>. Los Angeles, CA: The Los Angeles County Museum, 1957.
	page number: 	Mentioned and Reproduced: no. 97, pl. 97
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook.</em> Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.
	page number: 	Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 826
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n146

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 254
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n278

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 254
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n278

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 335
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n355

	Sun, Di, editor. <em>Zhongguo liu shi hai wai Fo jiao zao xiang zong he tu mu </em>[中国流失海外佛教造像总合图目 = Comprehensive Illustrated Catalogue of Chinese Buddhist Statues in Overseas Collections]. Beijing: Wai wen chu ban she, 2005.
	page number: 	Reproduced: vol. 7, p. 1375
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	Woon, Wee Teng 雲惟慶. <em>The Hidden Treasures of Nanzhao &amp; Dali Kingdoms, with Other Artifacts from Yunnan </em>雲南之寶 : 南詔, 大理國等珍藏. Singapore: Woon Brothers Foundation, 2014.
	page number: 	Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 102, fig. 3.1d
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	Boehm, Christian. "Buddhist Bronzes of the Dali Kingdom in Yunnan Province." <em>Arts of Asia</em> 45, no. 4 (July-August 2015): 65-75.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 65, fig. 1
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