id:			137218
accession number:	1962.162
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1962.162
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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
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series:				
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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 (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, ?-1962, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
	date: ?-1962
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, 1962-present
	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 yingluo (mukt hara) worn by the bodhisattva for personal adornment. The somewhat bizarre but imaginative combination of a string of jewels with grotesque animal masks, flying aspara, 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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