id:			150493
accession number:	1981.53
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1981.53
updated:		2024-03-26 01:59:47.796000

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
series:				
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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
copyright:			

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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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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
	<i>The Year in Review for 1981</i>. 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. <em>Chinese Objects of Art</em>. 19 October 1944. Lot 229.
	page number: 	Mentioned: Lot 229
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	Sotheby's New York. <em>Fine Chinese Ceramics, Works of Art and Paintings</em>. 6 November 1981. Lot 50.
	page number: 	Reproduced:  lot 50
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	Norton, Thomas E. Foreward by Douglas Dillon. <em>100 Years of Collecting in America: The Story of Sotheby Parke Bernet</em>. 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. <em>Hai wai yi zhen. fo xiang</em> [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
	url:		

	Cunningham, Michael R., Stanislaw J. Czuma, Anne E. Wardwell, and J. Keith Wilson. <em>Masterworks of Asian Art</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1998.
	page number: 	Reproduced: pp. 56-57
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	Sun, Di, editor. Z<em>hongguo liu shi hai wai Fo jiao zao xiang zong he tu mu </em>[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
	url:		

	"New in the Galleries.” <em>Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine </em>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.<em> Important Chinese art</em>. October 8, 2019.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 169
	url:		

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