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Water and Moon (Potala) Guanyin

900–1100

China, Five dynasties (907-960) - Song dynasty

(960-1279)

Gilt bronze

Overall: 17.6 cm (6 15/16 in.)

The Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund 1984.7

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241C Chinese Buddhist Sculptures

Description

The Water and Moon Guanyin is seated in the posture called "royal ease." His right leg is drawn up with folded knee; the left leg flexed. One hand rests on the upraised knee; the other extends downward to support weight on the palm. With gilding, the image assumes the splendor of divine dignity.

Provenance

?–December 6, 1983

Mr. and Mrs. Richard C. Bull

December 6, 1983

(Sotheby's New York, NY. Important Chinese Works of Art: The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Richard C. Bull. 6 December 1983 sale, Lot 66)

?–1984

(Mr. J. E. Eskenazi, Ltd., London, England, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)

1984–

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Citations

Small Sculpture, Shang Through Sung Dynasties: A Loan Exhibition. New York: Chinese Art Society of America, 1954. no. 68

Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc., New York. Important Chinese Works of Art: The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Richard C. Bull. 6 December 1983. Mentioned and Reproduced: Lot 66

Turner, Evan H. "The Year in Review for 1984." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 72, no. 2 (1985): 163–207. Mentioned: no. 182, p. 206; Reproduced: no. 182, p. 173 www.jstor.org

Hai wai yi zhen [海外遺珎. 佛像 = Chinese art in overseas collections. Buddhist sculpture]. Taibei Shi: Guo li gu gong bo wu yuan, 1990. p. 155

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. vol.6, p. 1245

Exhibition history

Small Sculptures, Shang through Sung dynasties. China House Gallery, New York, NY (February 19–April 17, 1954).

Year in Review for 1984. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 3-May 5, 1985).

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