id:			148021
accession number:	1975.101
share license status:	CC0
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updated:		2025-02-09 03:47:33.947000

Eleven-Headed Bodhisattva of Compassion (Avalokiteshvara), around 1000. Western Himalayas. Gilt bronze with silver and copper inlay; overall: 39.4 x 14 x 7.6 cm (15 1/2 x 5 1/2 x 3 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund 1975.101

title:				Eleven-Headed Bodhisattva of Compassion (Avalokiteshvara)
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creation date:			around 1000
creation date earliest:		975
creation date latest:		1025
current location:		237 Himalayan
creditline:			Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund
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culture:	Western Himalayas
technique:	gilt bronze with silver and copper inlay
department:	Indian and Southeast Asian Art
collection:	Tibetan Art
type:		Sculpture
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measurements: Overall: 39.4 x 14 x 7.6 cm (15 1/2 x 5 1/2 x 3 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Images of the Mind
	opening date:   1987-07-07T04:00:00
	<i>Images of the Mind</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 7-August 30, 1987).

	title:		Wisdom and Compassion: The Sacred Art of Tibet
	opening date:   1992-09-18T04:00:00
	<i>Wisdom and Compassion: The Sacred Art of Tibet</i>. Royal Academy of Arts, London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (September 18-December 13, 1992).

	title:		Wisdom and Compassion: The Sacred Art of Tibet
	opening date:   1996-05-01T00:00:00
	<i>Wisdom and Compassion: The Sacred Art of Tibet</i>. Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn, Germany (May 1-August 31, 1996); Fundació "la Caixa", Barcelona, Spain (October 1, 1996-January 12, 1997).

	title:		Wisdom and Compassion: The Sacred Art of Tibet
	opening date:   1998-01-16T00:00:00
	<i>Wisdom and Compassion: The Sacred Art of Tibet</i>. Dr. Sun-Yat-Sen Memorial Hall, Taipei (January 16-May 1, 1998).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	(J. E. Eskenazi, Ltd., London, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
	date: ?-1975
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1975-
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Christian Luczanits in Linrothe, Robert, Christian Luczanits, and Melissa R. Kerin. 2014. Collecting paradise: Buddhist art of Kashmir and its legacies : [exhibition, Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, January, 13 - April 19, 2015 ; Rubin Museum of Art, New York, May 22, 2015 - October 19, 2015]. New York (N.Y.): Rubin Museum of Art. pp. 110-111.
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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. 293
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n313

	Klimburg-Salter, Deborah E., and Maximilian Klimburg. The Silk Route and the Diamond Path: Esoteric Buddhist Art on the Trans-Himalayan Trade Routes. Los Angeles, Calif: Published under the sponsorship of the UCLA Art Council, 1982.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 105, pl. 32
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	Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Images of the Mind.</em> Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1987.
	page number: 	Reproduced: [p. 20]
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	"1992 Annual Report." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 80, no. 6 (1993): 215-95.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 247
	url:		https://www.jstor.org/stable/25161418

	Rhie, Marylin M., Robert A. F. Thurman, and John Bigelow Taylor. <em>Wisdom and Compassion: The Sacred Art of Tibet</em>. New York: Tibet House New York in association with Harry N. Abrams, Inc, 1996.
	page number: 	Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 127, pp. 322-323
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	Kerin, Melissa R. and Rob Linrothe. "Recollecting Kashmir: Cleveland's Eleven-headed, Thousand-armed Avalokiteshvara." Orientations 46, no 1 (January/February 2015): 68-76.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 71, fig. 2
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