id: 157563 accession number: 1994.94 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1994.94 updated: 2023-03-15 15:46:13.393000 Seated Amitābha, late 1500s–early 1600s. Chinese, Ming dynasty (1368-1644). Hanging scroll, ink and color on silk; overall with knobs: 236.9 x 105.7 cm (93 1/4 x 41 5/8 in.); painting only: 130.8 x 75 cm (51 1/2 x 29 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of David S. Utterberg and the Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund 1994.94 title: Seated Amitābha title in original language: 阿彌陀佛 series: series in original language: creation date: late 1500s–early 1600s creation date earliest: 1575 creation date latest: 1625 current location: creditline: Gift of David S. Utterberg and the Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund copyright: --- culture: Chinese, Ming dynasty (1368-1644) technique: hanging scroll, ink and color on silk department: Chinese Art collection: ASIAN - Hanging scroll type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall with knobs: 236.9 x 105.7 cm (93 1/4 x 41 5/8 in.); Painting only: 130.8 x 75 cm (51 1/2 x 29 1/2 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Object in Focus: Seated Amit'a opening date: 1998-07-28T00:00:00 Object in Focus: Seated Amit'a. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 28-September 27, 1998). title: Korean Gallery 236 Rotation opening date: 2018-07-16T04:00:00 Korean Gallery 236 Rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (July 16, 2018-January 20, 2019). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE (R-L Sneider Inc., New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: ?–1994 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1994– footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: Originally, this scroll was acquired by the museum as a Korean work, but has now been tentatively reattributed as Ming period Chinese. digital description: wall description: This magnificent Buddha, called Amitābha (literally, “infinite light”) is seated on a lotus pedestal with both palms facing up over crossed legs, suggesting that it is in deep meditation. In contrast to the richly ornamented throne on which the Buddha is seated, the figure itself is devoid of any jewelry or decorative attributes, emphasizing its enlightened status and detachment from worldly affairs. The lion head in the center of the pedestal is a motif from Central Asia, which can also be seen in the halo or nimbus of Chinese Buddhist stone steles. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Waterhouse, Helen. Buddhism: Study Guide. Milton Keynes: Open University, 2005. page number: Reproduced: pl. 9 url: https://archive.org/details/buddhismstudygui0000wate/page/n103/mode/2up?q=utterberg --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1994.94/1994.94_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1994.94/1994.94_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1994.94/1994.94_full.tif