Collection record · Belief & ritual
Bodhisattva Guanyin
The collection record classifies this work as sculpture. It is dated late 500s–early 600s. Recorded culture or place: China, late Northern Qi (550–577) or early Sui dynasty (581–618).
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- Museum title
- Bodhisattva Guanyin
- Date
- late 500s–early 600s
- Culture / origin
- China, late Northern Qi (550–577) or early Sui dynasty (581–618)
- Materials and technique
- sandstone with polychromy
- Dimensions
- Overall: 138.8 x 38.2 x 27.4 cm (54 5/8 x 15 1/16 x 10 13/16 in.)
- Artist / maker
- Not specified by the museum
- Museum
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Accession number
- 1962.162
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The following description is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art’s original English record.
The artistic excellence of this bodhisattva is further reinforced by comparable outstanding Chinese Buddhist sculptures excavated at Qingzhou in Shandong Province in 1996—one of the most sensational and significant archaeological finds of the 1900s. Like related types among the Qingzhou finds, this statute has a gently smiling face and meticulous detailing of splendid jewelry. A noticeable difference, however, is the unique yingluo 瓔珞 (mukt hara) worn by the bodhisattva for personal adornment. The somewhat bizarre but imaginative combination of a string of jewels with grotesque animal masks, flying apsara, jade pendants, dragons, and metal ornaments was probably a regional decorative style of Shanxi Province.
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