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accession number: 1983.86
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Bodhisattva, 700s. China, Tang dynasty (618-907). Dry lacquer; overall: 44 x 37 cm (17 5/16 x 14 9/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Given in memory of Howard Parmelee Eells, Jr. by his wife, Adele Chisholm Eells 1983.86
title: Bodhisattva
title in original language: 菩薩
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creation date: 700s
creation date earliest: 700
creation date latest: 799
current location: 241C Chinese Buddhist Sculptures
creditline: Given in memory of Howard Parmelee Eells, Jr. by his wife, Adele Chisholm Eells
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culture: China, Tang dynasty (618-907)
technique: dry lacquer
department: Chinese Art
collection: China - Tang Dynasty
type: Sculpture
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measurements: Overall: 44 x 37 cm (17 5/16 x 14 9/16 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: The Year in Review for 1983
opening date: 1984-02-22T05:00:00
The Year in Review for 1983. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 22-April 8, 1984).
title: The Twain Shall Meet
opening date: 1985-10-30T05:00:00
The Twain Shall Meet. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 30, 1985-January 5, 1986).
title: Streams and Mountains Without End: Asian Art and the Legacy of Sherman E. Lee at the Cleveland Museum of Art
opening date: 2009-06-27T04:00:00
Streams and Mountains Without End: Asian Art and the Legacy of Sherman E. Lee at the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 27-August 23, 2009).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* {'description': 'The Arts of the Sung Dynasty. Arts Council of Great Britain and the Oriental Ceramic Society, London, England (June 16–July 23, 1960).', 'opening_date': '1960-07-23T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'The Mount Trust Collection of Chinese Art. Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England (January-March 1970).', 'opening_date': '1970-01-01T00:00:00'}
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PROVENANCE
(C.T. Loo 盧芹齋 [1880–1957], Paris, France)
date: by 1933–?
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The Mount Trust of Captain Vivian Francis [1891–1968] and Mrs. Cornelia Stuyvesant Vanderbilt Bulkeley-Johnson [1900–1976], Churchill, Oxfordshire, England
date: ?–1983
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(Christie's, London, England, 19 April 1983 sale, lot 42)
date: 19 April 1983
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(J. E. Eskenazi, Ltd., London, UK, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
date: 1983
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 1983–
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Fischer, Otto. "Chinesische Lacksculptur." Ostasiatische Zeitschrift, IX (1933), 75–77.
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: Pl. 16, fig. 2
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Gray, Basil. Catalogue of an Exhibition of the Arts of the Sung Dynasty. London: Arts Council of Great Britain and the Oriental Ceramic Society, 1960.
page number: Mentioned: no. 292
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Ayers, John G. The Mount Trust Collection of Chinese Art. London: Victoria and Albert Museum, 1970.
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: no. 69
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Christie, Manson & Woods Limited. Fine Chinese Ceramics, Bronzes, Ivories and Works of Art: The Properties of F.A. Fairbairn; Mrs. Anne How; Lady Neville; R.H. Newsholme; Dr. Marcos Tang; the Mount Trust; the Lord Walpole and from Various Sources; Which Will Be Sold at Christie's Great Rooms on Tuesday 19 April 1983. London: Christie, Manson & Woods Ltd., 1983.
page number: Lot 42
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Turner, Evan H. “Year in Review for 1983.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 71, no. 2 (1984): 38–79.
page number: Mentioned: no. 237, pp. 47 and 77; Reproduced: no. 237, p. 46
url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25159848
Lee, Sherman E. "A Dry Lacquer Buddhist Image from T'ang China." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 71, no. 3 (1984): 90–99.
page number: Mentioned: pp. 90–99; Reproduced: figs. 1-5, 10
url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25159853
La Chronique des Arts Supplement a la Gazette des Beaux Arts, no. 1382 (March 1984).
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 21, no. 132
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Candace Lewis, "Report from America (East Coast)." Oriental Art, n.s. XXX, no. 3 (Autumn 1984), pp. 293–294.
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Dempsey, James H. “The Annual Report for 1984.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 72, no. 4 (1985): 242–98.
page number: Mentioned: pp. 261, 267; Reproduced: p. 267
url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25159905
Neils, Jenifer. “The Twain Shall Meet.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 72, no. 6, 1985, pp. 326–359.
page number: Reproduced: p. 342, fig. 32
url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25159914
Hollendonner, Frederick L., "Restoration of an early Chinese Hollow Dry Lacquer Figure." In The Conservation of Far Eastern Art: Preprints of the Contributions to the Kyoto Congress, 19-23 September 1988. John S. Mills, Perry Smith, and Kazuo Yamasaki, editors. London: International Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works, 1988.
page number: Mentioned: pp. 146-148; Reproduced: figs. 1–4
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Slusser, Mary Shpherd. "The Art of East Asian Lacquer Sculptures." Orientations vol. 27, no. 1 (Jan. 1996): pp. 16–30.
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 19, fig. 6
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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: Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 46–47
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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. 6, p. 1226
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Chung, Anita. "A Connoisseur's Eye, A Scholar's Mind: The Legacy of Sherman Lee." Orientations vol. 40, no. 5 (2009).
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 31, fig. 5
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Chung, Anita. "Two Bodhisattva Images in The Cleveland Museum of Art." Orientations vol. 41, no. 8 (Nov./Dec. 2010): pg. 89–92.
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 89–90, fig. 1 and 1a-b
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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: p. 58
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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. 96
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