id: 137276 accession number: 1962.213 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1962.213 updated: 2023-08-25 11:18:42.332000 Adoring Monk, early 500s. China, Northern Wei dynasty (386-534). Gilt bronze; overall: 14.9 cm (5 7/8 in.); base: 3.6 x 5.2 x 3.9 cm (1 7/16 x 2 1/16 x 1 9/16 in.); figure: 11.5 cm (4 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. John Lyon Collyer in memory of her mother, Mrs. G. M. G. Forman 1962.213 title: Adoring Monk title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: early 500s creation date earliest: 500 creation date latest: 525 current location: creditline: Gift of Mrs. John Lyon Collyer in memory of her mother, Mrs. G. M. G. Forman copyright: --- culture: China, Northern Wei dynasty (386-534) technique: gilt bronze department: Chinese Art collection: China - Northern Dynasties type: Sculpture find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 14.9 cm (5 7/8 in.); Base: 3.6 x 5.2 x 3.9 cm (1 7/16 x 2 1/16 x 1 9/16 in.); Figure: 11.5 cm (4 1/2 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Year in Review - 1962 opening date: 1962-10-24T04:00:00 Year in Review - 1962. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 24-November 25, 1962). title: China through the Magnifying Glass: Masterpieces in Miniature and Detail opening date: 2022-12-11T05:00:00 China through the Magnifying Glass: Masterpieces in Miniature and Detail. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 11, 2022-February 26, 2023). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Art of the Six Dynasties: Centuries of Change and Innovation. China House Gallery, (October 29, 1975-February 1, 1976). * Master Bronzes Selected from Museums and Collections in America. The Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, Albright Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY (February 1937). --- PROVENANCE Mrs. Christian R. Holmes, New York, NY date: by 1937–? footnotes: citations: Mrs. G. M. G. Forman, given to her daughter, Mrs. John Lyon [Georgia Forman Elliott] Collyer date: after 1937–? footnotes: citations: Mrs. John Lyon [Georgia Forman Elliott] Collyer [1898–1994], given to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: ?–1962 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1962– footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: The monk stands with his hands together in a reverent greeting. digital description: wall description: Portable Buddhist figures and objects like this gilt bronze had a variety of uses. They could have been carried in religious processions. Others could serve as donations, souvenirs, or votive items in the context of pilgrimages to religious sites. Their miniature size also made them appropriate for placement on private altars or shrines for personal devotion. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Master Bronzes, Selected from Museums and Collections in America; February, 1937, the Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, Albright Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York. [Buffalo, N.Y.]: [Burrow and Co.], 1937. page number: Reproduced: cat. no. 27 url: "Back Matter." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 49, no. 8 (October 1962). page number: Reproduced: back cover url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25151912 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. page number: Reproduced: p. 249 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n273 Munsterberg, Hugo. Chinese Buddhist Bronzes. Rutland, Vt: C.E. Tuttle, 1967. page number: Reproduced: pl. 100 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. page number: Reproduced: p. 249 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n273 Juliano, Annette L. Art of the Six Dynasties: Centuries of Change and Innovation: [Exhibition] October 29, 1975 Through February 1, 1976. New York. China House Gallery. New York: China House Gallery, 1975. page number: cat. 51 url: Hai wai yi zhen. fo xing [Chinese art in overseas collections, Buddhist sculpture = 海外遺珎. 佛像]. Taibei Shi Shilin qu Waishuangxi: Guo li gu gong bo wu yuan, 1986. page number: Reproduced: pl. 29 url: Sun, Di, editor. Zhongguo liu shi hai wai Fo jiao zao xiang zong he tu mu [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. 1, p. 150 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1962.213/1962.213_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1962.213/1962.213_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1962.213/1962.213_full.tif