id:			149391
accession number:	1978.47.2
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1978.47.2
updated:		2022-06-10 18:38:27.177000

White-Robed Guanyin, late 1200s–early 1300s. Copy after Jueji Yongzhong (Chinese, active around 1300), Zhongfeng Mingben (Chinese, 1263-1323). Hanging scroll; ink and gold on silk; painting: 80.7 x 25.7 cm (31 3/4 x 10 1/8 in.); overall with knobs and cord: 168.2 x 44.5 cm (66 1/4 x 17 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1978.47.2

title:				White-Robed Guanyin
title in original language:	白衣觀音
series:				
series in original language:	
creation date:			late 1200s–early 1300s
creation date earliest:		1250
creation date latest:		1349
current location:		
creditline:			Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
copyright:			

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culture:	China, Yuan dynasty (1271-1368)
technique:	hanging scroll; ink and gold on silk
department:	Chinese Art
collection:	ASIAN - Hanging scroll
type:		Painting
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catalogue raisonne: 

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CREATORS

* Jueji Yongzhong (Chinese, active around 1300)  - artist

* Zhongfeng Mingben (Chinese, 1263-1323)  - inscription by

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measurements: Painting: 80.7 x 25.7 cm (31 3/4 x 10 1/8 in.); Overall with knobs and cord: 168.2 x 44.5 cm (66 1/4 x 17 1/2 in.)
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inscriptions:

	inscription:	Inscription: one of the 84,000 painted by the priest Insei.
	translation:	
	remark:		

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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Taming Tigers and Releasing Dragons: Masterpieces of Chinese Buddhist Art – Chinese Gallery Rotation 240a, 241c
	opening date:   2019-02-08T05:00:00
	<i>Taming Tigers and Releasing Dragons: Masterpieces of Chinese Buddhist Art – Chinese Gallery Rotation 240a, 241c</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (February 8-August 11, 2019).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	(Yamanaka and Company, Ltd., Kyoto, Japan, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
	date: ?–1978
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1978–
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digital description: 


wall description: 
The original model for this ink drawing of Guanyin, the bodhisattva of infinite compassion (Avalokiteshvara in Sanskrit), is accession number 1978.47.1. This drawing is a later copy with the same image of the White-Robed Guanyin, but in reverse. The inscription above reads: <em>one of the 84,000 painted by the priest Insei</em>. <br><br>The inscription seems to indicate that the Japanese priest Insei repeatedly copied the image of the bodhisattva in an act of piety and to accumulate merit, as is promised in the <em>Lotus Sutra</em> for anyone who paints images of the Buddha, they “will achieve the Buddha path.” The priest’s name and seal need further study and identification.
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