id:			135584
accession number:	1959.129
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1959.129
updated:		2024-03-26 01:58:45.919000

Eleven-Headed Guanyin, early 700s. China, Tang dynasty (618-907). Gray sandstone; overall: 129.6 x 63.6 x 25.4 cm (51 x 25 1/16 x 10 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Severance and Greta Millikin 1959.129

title:				Eleven-Headed Guanyin
title in original language:	十一面觀音菩薩
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creation date:			early 700s
creation date earliest:		700
creation date latest:		725
current location:		ALOB Asian Lobby
creditline:			Gift of Severance and Greta Millikin
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culture:	China, Tang dynasty (618-907)
technique:	gray sandstone
department:	Chinese Art
collection:	China - Tang Dynasty
type:		Sculpture
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measurements: Overall: 129.6 x 63.6 x 25.4 cm (51 x 25 1/16 x 10 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	(C.T. Loo 盧芹齋 [1880-1957], New York, NY and Paris, France, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
	date: ?-1959
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1959-
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Lee, Sherman E., and Wai-Kam Ho. “A Colossal Eleven-Faced Kuan-Yin of the T’ang Dynasty.” <em>Artibus Asiae</em> 22, no. 1/2 (1959): 121–137.
	page number: 	Mentioned: pp. 121–137; Reproduced: fig. 1, p. 123; fig. 2, p. 124; fig. 5, p. 127
	url:		https://www-jstor-org.ingallslibrary.idm.oclc.org/stable/3249149

	Lee, Sherman E., and Wai-Kam Ho. “A Colossal Eleven-Faced Kuan-Yin of the T’ang Dynasty.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 47, no. 1 (January 1960): 3–6.
	page number: 	Mentioned: pp. 3–6; Reproduced: fig. 1, p. 4 and fig. 2, p. 5
	url:		https://www.jstor.org/stable/25142372

	Cleveland Museum of Art, “Art News Press Release,” January 23, 1961, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives.
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	url:		https://archive.org/details/cmapr0683

	Lee, Sherman E. "Contrasts in Chinese and Japanese art."<em> Journal of Aesthetics &amp; Art Criticism</em>, Fall 1962, Vol. 21 Issue 1, 3–12.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 3
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	Lee, Sherman E. <em>A History of Far Eastern Art</em>. New York: H.N. Abrams, 1964.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 154, fig. no. 185
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	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. 253
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n277

	<em>Selected Works: Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1967.
	page number: 	Reproduced: pl. 54
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	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. 253
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n277

	Glubok, Shirley. <em>The Art of China</em>. New York: Macmillan, 1973.
	page number: 	p. 40
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	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. 333
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n353

	Guo li gu gong bo wu yuan 國立故宮博物院. <em>Hai wai yi zhen. fo xiang</em> [海外遺珎. 佛像 = Chinese art in overseas collections. Buddhist sculpture]. Taibei Shi: Guo li gu gong bo wu yuan, 1986.
	page number: 	Reproduced: pl. 115
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	Sun, Di 孙迪, 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: 	Mentioned: vol. 5, 1084
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	Shepherd, Rupert, and Robert Maniura. <em>Presence: The Inherence of the Prototype Within Images and Other Objects</em>. Aldershot, England: Ashgate, 2006.
	page number: 	p. 276, fig. 16.5
	url:		

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