id:			137218
accession number:	1962.162
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1962.162
updated:		2020-09-15 09:01:42.895000

Bodhisattva Guanyin, late 500s-early 600s. China, late Northern Qi (550-577) or early Sui dynasty (581-618). Sandstone with polychromy; overall: 138.8 x 38.2 x 27.4 cm (54 5/8 x 15 1/16 x 10 13/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1962.162

title:				Bodhisattva Guanyin
title in original language:	觀音菩薩
series:				
series in original language:	
creation date:			late 500s-early 600s
creation date earliest:		575
creation date latest:		625
current location:		241C Chinese Buddhist Sculptures
creditline:			John L. Severance Fund
copyright:			

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culture:	China, late Northern Qi (550-577) or early Sui dynasty (581-618)
technique:	sandstone with polychromy
department:	Chinese Art
collection:	China - Sui Dynasty
type:		Sculpture
find spot:	
catalogue raisonne: 

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CREATORS

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measurements: Overall: 138.8 x 38.2 x 27.4 cm (54 5/8 x 15 1/16 x 10 13/16 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Year in Review - 1962
	opening date:   1962-10-24T04:00:00
	<i>Year in Review - 1962</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (October 24-November 25, 1962).

	title:		Honoring Sherman Lee
	opening date:   2009-06-28T00:00:00
	<i>Honoring Sherman Lee</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (June 28-August 30, 2009).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* <em>Korea: Bridge of Culture</em>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Department of Art History and Education, Cleveland, OH (June 10-August 10, 1980).

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PROVENANCE

	(Mayuyama and Company, Tokyo, Japan, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
	date: ?-1962
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1962-
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wall description: 
The artistic excellence of this bodhisattva is further reinforced by comparable outstanding Chinese Buddhist sculptures excavated at Qingzhou in Shandong Province in 1996—one of the most sensational and significant archaeological finds of the 20th century. Like related types among the Qingzhou finds, this statute has a gently smiling face and meticulous detailing of splendid jewelry. A noticeable difference, however, is the unique <em>yingluo</em> (<em>mukt hara</em>) worn by the bodhisattva for personal adornment. The somewhat bizarre but imaginative combination of a string of jewels with grotesque animal masks, flying <em>apsara</em>, jade pendants, dragons, and metal ornaments was probably a regional decorative style of Shanxi Province.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	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. 250
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n274

	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. 250
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n274

	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. 330
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n350

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