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Water and Moon (Potala) Guanyin

Water and Moon (Potala) Guanyin

900–1100
(907-960) - Song dynasty (960-1279)
Overall: 17.6 cm (6 15/16 in.)

Did You Know?

The deity wears a short-sleeved garment draped over his finely striated hair and shoulders.

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.
  • ?–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
  • 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
  • Year in Review for 1984. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 3-May 5, 1985).
    Small Sculptures, Shang through Sung dynasties. China House Gallery, New York, NY (February 19–April 17, 1954).
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