id: 148682 accession number: 1976.14 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1976.14 updated: 2023-03-11 20:51:05.970000 Bodhisattva Guanyin, 900s. China, Liao dynasty (916-1125). Gilt bronze; overall: 43.8 cm (17 1/4 in.); diameter of base: 14.6 cm (5 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund 1976.14 title: Bodhisattva Guanyin title in original language: 觀音菩薩 series: series in original language: creation date: 900s creation date earliest: 900 creation date latest: 999 current location: 241C Chinese Buddhist Sculptures creditline: The Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund copyright: --- culture: China, Liao dynasty (916-1125) technique: gilt bronze department: Chinese Art collection: China - Liao Dynasty type: Sculpture find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 43.8 cm (17 1/4 in.); Diameter of base: 14.6 cm (5 3/4 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Year in Review, 1976 opening date: 1977-02-01T05:00:00 Year in Review, 1976. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 1-March 6, 1977). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * The Arts of China from The Cleveland Museum of Art. Mansfield Art Center, Mansfield, OH (February 27-April 10, 1983). --- PROVENANCE R. T. Bruce, London, England date: footnotes: citations: (J. E. Eskenazi, Ltd., London, England, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: ?–1976 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1976– footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: In Buddhism, a bodhisattva is a being who, just before reaching enlightenment, turns back to assist others to reach enlightenment first. This bodhisattva holds his hand palm forward, in a gesture that tells followers not to fear. In his other hand he carries a bottle that holds the elixir of immortality. wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Lee, Sherman E. “The Year in Review for 1976.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 64, no. 2 (1977): 39–79. page number: Mentioned: no. 158, p.79; Reproduced: no. 158, p. 63 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25152676 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 335 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n355 Guo li gu gong bo wu yuan 國立故宮博物院. Hai wai yi zhen. fo xiang [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. 147 url: Sun, Di 孙迪, 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: vol. 7, 1309 url: Chung, Anita. "Two Bodhisattva Images in The Cleveland Museum of Art." Orientations vol. 41, no. 8 (Nov./Dec. 2010) page number: Reproduced: p. 91, fig. 2-2a url: Eskenazi, Giuseppe, and Hajni Elias. A Dealer's Hand: The Chinese Art World Through the Eyes of Giuseppe Eskenazi. London, England: Scala, 2012. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 210, pl. 89 url: Cleveland Museum of Art. The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 98 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1976.14/1976.14_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1976.14/1976.14_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1976.14/1976.14_full.tif