id: 150493 accession number: 1981.53 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1981.53 updated: 2024-09-18 11:02:11.070000 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: series in original language: 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: --- 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 find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 218.5 cm (86 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- 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). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE (Sotheby's, New York, NY, sale October 19, 1944, lot 229, sold to C. T. Loo) date: October 19, 1944 footnotes: citations: (C. T. Loo 盧芹齋 [1880–1957], Paris and New York) date: 1944–1952 footnotes: citations: Anne Valliant Burnett Tandy [1900–1980], Fort Worth, Texas, consigned to Sotheby's New York date: ?–1980 footnotes: citations: (Sotheby's, New York, NY, sale November 6, 1981, lot 50) date: November 6, 1981 footnotes: citations: (J. E. Eskenazi, Ltd., London, UK, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: 1981 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1981– footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc., New York. Chinese Objects of Art. 19 October 1944. Lot 229. page number: Mentioned: Lot 229 url: Sotheby's New York. Fine Chinese Ceramics, Works of Art and Paintings. 6 November 1981. Lot 50. page number: Reproduced: lot 50 url: 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 url: 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 url: 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 url: 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 url: "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. url: Sotheby's (Firm), Hong Kong. Important Chinese art. October 8, 2019. page number: Reproduced: p. 169 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1981.53/1981.53_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1981.53/1981.53_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1981.53/1981.53_full.tif