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Replica of Heavenly Musician from Horyu-ji

Replica of Heavenly Musician from Horyu-ji

1615–1868
(1615-1868)
camphor (hinoki) wood with traces of polychromy in vermillion red, verdigris green, gesso white, and soot black
Overall: 53.7 cm (21 1/8 in.); Halo: 41.6 x 23.2 cm (16 3/8 x 9 1/8 in.); Figure: 16.2 cm (6 3/8 in.)
Gift of the Hanna Fund 1954.792
Location: not on view
  • Hamamura(?), Kyoto; Z. Fuji'i, Nishinomiya
    ?-1954
    (Howard C. Hollis [1899-1985], Cleveland, OH, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
    1954-
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Kinoshita, T. "A Wooden Image of Apsaras originally attached to the Tengai (canopy) in the Kondo of Horyu-ji," Yamato Bunka 大和文華, no. 12, December, 1953, pp. 67-70. Reproduced: pl. 4
    Lee, Sherman E. “A Heavenly Musician from Hōryū-Ji.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 42, no. 9, 1955, pp. 199–201 Reproduced: p. 197 www.jstor.org
    Lee, Sherman E. A History of Far Eastern Art. New York: H.N. Abrams, 1964. Reproduced: p. 153, fig. 182
    Mayuyama, Junkichi. Japanese Art in the West. [Tokyo]: Mayuyama & Co, 1966. Mentioned: p. 3; Reproduced: pl. 1, p. 341
    The Human Adventure IV, grade 6, vol. I. Cleveland: Educational Research Council of Greater Cleveland, 1966-1967. Reproduced: p. 328
    Froncek, Thomas, and Hugh Honour. The Horizon Book of the Arts of China. New York: American Heritage Pub. Co, 1969. Reproduced: p. 345
    Zenzo Shimizu 清水善三. "Japanese Sculptures in America and Canada," Ars Buddhica 佛教藝術, no. 126 (September 1979), part I, pp. 67-88. Reproduced: p. 69, fig. 6
  • In Memoriam: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr.. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 4-April 7, 1958).
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