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accession number: 1981.53
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Eleven-Headed Guanyin, 1100–1200. China, late Northern Song dynasty (960-1127) - Jin dynasty (1115-1234). Wood with polychromy and cut gold; overall: 218.5 cm (86 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1981.53
title: Eleven-Headed Guanyin
title in original language: 十一面觀音菩薩
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creation date: 1100–1200
creation date earliest: 1100
creation date latest: 1200
current location: 238 Chinese Ceramics
creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
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culture: China, late Northern Song dynasty (960-1127) - Jin dynasty (1115-1234)
technique: wood with polychromy and cut gold
department: Chinese Art
collection: China - Song Dynasty
type: Sculpture
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CREATORS
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measurements: Overall: 218.5 cm (86 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: The Year in Review for 1981
opening date: 1982-02-17T05:00:00
The Year in Review for 1981. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 17-March 21, 1982).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
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PROVENANCE
(Sotheby's, New York, NY, sale October 19, 1944, lot 229, sold to C. T. Loo)
date: October 19, 1944
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(C. T. Loo 盧芹齋 [1880–1957], Paris and New York)
date: 1944–1952
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Anne Valliant Burnett Tandy [1900–1980], Fort Worth, Texas, consigned to Sotheby's New York
date: ?–1980
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(Sotheby's, New York, NY, sale November 6, 1981, lot 50)
date: November 6, 1981
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(J. E. Eskenazi, Ltd., London, UK, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
date: 1981
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 1981–
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc., New York. Chinese Objects of Art. 19 October 1944. Lot 229.
page number: Mentioned: Lot 229
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Sotheby's New York. Fine Chinese Ceramics, Works of Art and Paintings. 6 November 1981. Lot 50.
page number: Reproduced: lot 50
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Lee, Sherman E. “The Year in Review for 1981.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 69, no. 2 (February 1982): 39–82.
page number: Reproduced: p. 71; Mentioned: p. 83, no. 136
url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25159758
“Annual Report for 1981.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 69, no. 6 (June 1982): 159–206.
page number: Reproduced: p. 174
url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25159776
Norton, Thomas E. Foreward by Douglas Dillon. 100 Years of Collecting in America: The Story of Sotheby Parke Bernet. New York: H.N. Abrams, 1984.
page number: Mentioned: p. 218
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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, 1990.
page number: Reproduced: p. 152
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Cunningham, Michael R., Stanislaw J. Czuma, Anne E. Wardwell, and J. Keith Wilson. Masterworks of Asian Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1998.
page number: Reproduced: pp. 56-57
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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. 7, p. 1364
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"New in the Galleries.” Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine vol. 59, no. 1 (January/February 2019): Back cover.
page number: Reproduced and Mentioned: Back cover.
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Sotheby's (Firm), Hong Kong. Important Chinese art. October 8, 2019.
page number: Reproduced: p. 169
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